Context: The CIA intern picked the wrong tweet to unleash the bot farm on. It's totally natural to talk about Iran in some tweet about El Salvador.
This is honestly hilarious and fascinating to see the bot network work in real time. They all look pretty legit, but it's so obvious they're all bots because of this misfire.
Cards on the table, I'm a train driver, reddit.com/r/GreenAndPleasant/comments/zec1e4/tories_caught_using_twitter_bots_to_try_and_turn/
Here's some tweet from another bot crying that people are accusing them of being bots lmao: https://twitter.com/1Peace2World/status/1600113785510842369
I wonder if this got triggered by "10,000 soldados irán en San Salvador". No intern mistake, just a homonym.
That would be the funniest case and so I will it in my mind to be true.
That shouldnt be possible, this mistake can only be made by humans, to computers these are completely different wordsWhomst among us has never forgotten to ensure that a query is case sensitive?
Its not case sensitivity a and á are just different letters to the computerThat would be a great point, if "they will go" and "Iran" weren't both spelled with an á in Spanish.
They are exactly the same spelling.
depending on how you do string comparisons they can be. See Java's Collator class.
and iran, iran so far a wayyyyyyyyy
iran, i couldn't get awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Video of it here, since they already began to delete: https://twitter.com/suspendedrobot/status/1599773919933739008
Yeah it's all gone now, only people talking about the bots.
This is honestly a pretty big deal. It is literally definitive proof that no one can deny of the massive amount of bots manufacturing consent w.r.t. Iran. Hopefully someone downloads and shares the video here or something (on our own servers) because that is literally the only proof left.
Wow that's a shitload of tweets lol. Pretty crazy.
It's also so goddamn stupid how they all post the exact same thing. Like come on, they could easily use AI to come up with more varied posts. Are they that lazy? Or incompetent?
I noticed they did the same copy/paste shit with Cuba Libre stuff.
It's low effort because we're the only ones who care to notice.
This is exactly the same quantity and style of post as occurred during their attempt to make something happen in Cuba. It is the same group.
There seem to be a few in this video: https://youtu.be/nOc53ePzWok?t=111
Same shtick, "we don't want reform, we want [insert goal of CIA here]". This shit absolutely CAKED twitter for 3 or 4 days. They went full tilt with it on hundreds of tweets to really ram their bullshit through and concoct the lie that something was happening when it was incredibly minor.
The tag for all this back then was #SOSCuba
Remember the Cuba posts? Same style and quantity (but were posted to a lot more than just one thread).
I also think this looks similar to the mass quantity of posting that happens under posts by DSA's International Committee twitter too when the feds deem the posts to be too spicey.
Part of their goal I suspect is to use overwhelming quantity as a means of being the ONLY topic of discussion. Even if people recognise the botting the things the bots are talking about become the only topic and all others get pushed out.
when even the manufacturing of consent industry has automated away human jobs in favour of robots
lol at CIA troll factories mixing up their colonialism posting
Didn't Elon say he was going to get rid of bots on twitter?
Not CIA bots, that's for damn sure.
There's always the possibility that his purchase was subsidized to do exactly this kind of shit with less oversight. It kind of makes sense when you consider the stuff he was whining about to get out of the deal, just him projecting onto the existing platform what the CIA offering him a bailout was saying. Do we know where Elon gets his drugs?
The ability to generate accounts with backdated history and registration dates even. Just bake the CIA microservice right into the platform, why not? Probably not really that intimate a relationship, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
You'd think that they'd put a different body in charge of different theaters of operation. Why are they trying to do imperialism on a budget?
Cost cutting everywhere they possibly can, of course.
The tweets read like some form of custom AI they've trained. It's interesting to have such a large sample of tweets that are definitely CIA and definitely bots to evaluate what they're doing.
They probably have a division dedicated specifically to training social media AI in a way that they can give it topics and a set of talking points (list of things the
CIApeople want).Judging from the video I am 100% certain that this is the same people that were doing all the Cuba bot posting.
Incredibly bizarre, someone skimped on the botnet test harness.
On topic with the original tweet: Soyapango is a very poor part of El Salvador where the usual culprits take advantage of the people living there. The thing is that this kind of thing has happened before with Honduras and El Salvador. The only difference is probably that their presidents were more obedient at the time.
