Reddit is astroturfed with bots. You can see one of those garbage reactionary posts on r/TIL, r/pics, r/Interesting(i don't remember the exact sub name) getting 100k+ upvotes within 1-2 hours. Not to mention the amount of "I am a socialist but something pro state propaganda" on left wing subs. Not hard to train bots to respond like real human either.
Not hard to train bots to respond like real human either.
They don't even need to do that, they just need a few real people scanning the feed and passing links to their botnet. They may have done something clever to avoid the bots being easily detectable, or just as likely they're conspiring with reddit's white supremacist and CIA alumni admins to be exempted from the automatic detection tools.
FIFY "Not hard to train a real human to respond like bots either"
This is the real intention behind most of the western bots at least in this study. The information flows out from the western bots to the non bots who then repeat what the bots tell them often using the same words.
Reddit is astroturfed with bots. You can see one of those garbage reactionary posts on r/TIL, r/pics, r/Interesting(i don't remember the exact sub name) getting 100k+ upvotes within 1-2 hours. Not to mention the amount of "I am a socialist but something pro state propaganda" on left wing subs. Not hard to train bots to respond like real human either.
They don't even need to do that, they just need a few real people scanning the feed and passing links to their botnet. They may have done something clever to avoid the bots being easily detectable, or just as likely they're conspiring with reddit's white supremacist and CIA alumni admins to be exempted from the automatic detection tools.
FIFY "Not hard to train a real human to respond like bots either" This is the real intention behind most of the western bots at least in this study. The information flows out from the western bots to the non bots who then repeat what the bots tell them often using the same words.