Every social media site is overrun by hundreds of Russian bots, some worse than others (Meta products). What can we do to combat this? Should those of us who don’t want to live in a fascist dictatorship be running our own bot farms? Something has to be done to change the iron grip they have on the narrative of history and reality to the common man.
How can I make leftist bots to fight this plague?
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ITT: “Why you think it Russian bot, comrade? Russia never hack!”
There’s enough available research to show that Russia is running massive bot programs, you’re either living under a rock, ignorant, or it benefits you to deflect from the issue.
Edit 2: The user with the name like dimesix (I’ve blocked them) has gone through and downvoted all the comments he could on my profile. I wonder why this thread upsets him to such a degree that he’d do that?
The golden age of social networks is over. Even if a comment section is not full of Russian bots, it’s either full with ChatGPT bots OR some crawler bots that farm content. That’s good, people need to stop their naive approach towards social media, that we’ve had so far. Communication will probably become more intimate as a counter-reaction. Until then, there is no need to fight for something that is simply obsolete.
If you believe my issue is that there’s icky comments online, you don’t live in America or you’re pro Trump. This is about stopping massive bot farms from controlling every fucking election and making humanity less intelligent by the day. I don’t give a fuck about Facebook or social media, but I can clearly see the damage that’s been done by electing the guy that the bot farms overwhelmingly pushed for.