Cassanderer comments on 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.

[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Social media has no incentive to get rid of the networks or slow them down. And they do not.

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[–] sudo@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Like half the population of this site exists because Reddit locked down their API. It's an empirical fact that they engage in bot detection and prevention. Anyone who consistently uses a VPN will have personal experience with it. Anyone who's tried to interact with a social media's API can tell you that. Try to write a bot that scrapes Facebook events or LinkedIn profiles before you speak in such absolutes.

You are correct that they don't aim to completely eliminate them. They might even explicitly allow some of them. But If they didn't engage in any bot management you'd see nothing but spam for "hot 21yos in your area" on every site. Depending on the platform they might offer paid API access to facilitate those influence networks (eg X.com blue checks). Even if they did that they'd engage in bot prevention for bots that aren't paying.

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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah they absolutely have a motive to get rid of some kinds of bots: spam

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[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago

Connected influence ops are given free reign, absolutely. Big money to polits.

If I can spot them they can, and they choose not to shut them down, even as those ops abuse actual people in bullying them away from reality and use the system to get the real users violated, mass flagging and whatnot.

You are writing like they're involved in good faith efforts to stop inauthentic behavior and that is just laughable. Completely false as well.

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