eli5: How do social media “bots” work? Are they like programmed trolls? How do their accounts/comments seem as if they could be a real person’s?
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A lot are actual people. There are offices in some countries full of people getting paid to maintain dozens to hundreds of accounts and shitpost constantly all day long. Also commonly called a Troll Farm.
It sounds crazy, but think how many posts you could make in a solid 10hrs if you were just swooping in, posting some sort of divisive one-liner, and then dipping out to let the people argue amongst themselves in your wake. It’s probably the highest rate of return of anything you can spend your Psy-Ops money on.
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