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If you’re ever wondering why far left and far right accounts have so much influence on social media, this is a big part of it. (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 1 year ago by Shalashaska@lemmy.world to c/crazyfuckingvideos@lemmy.world

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[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What are we looking at?

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[–] Philote@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago

All the very real people on Reddit and such. You want 10,000 up doots in under 5 mins, just pay a small fee…. Short answer bot farm.

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[–] schwim@piefed.zip 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's someone running a social media bot farm. Each one of those phones is being used to manipulate communities by posting content that's being sold as from a real human being.

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

There are far cheaper, easier, and more efficient ways to do that. Individual phones are not needed.

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[–] quoll@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

testing environments or ad fraud farm (my money on the latter)

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