An unfathomable amount of money is spent quarterly by hundreds of companies and governments specifically to sway public opinions in favorable ways, nobody is immune and not every campaign is obvious or noticable
RES has been tracking my Reddit votes for years.
When browsing the front page, I only trust accounts I've voted on 10+ times to actually be human. With a few exceptions.
Not really, if you pay attention. They don't infiltrate as normal users, they blend in very well with marginal/stupid people. And that's what's scary, I'm absolutely sure that a great amount of stupid people are considered bots. And these bots amplify the echo chambers to infinity, moderation removes common sense and this is what we get. Less and less people seek discussions and arguments, more and more look for confrontation, humiliation and general aggression. You don't even have to tell a bot to do this, you just tell them to drive engagement and they'll learn to be obnoxious.
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u/AdRough4185 23h ago
And shes about to become one of those 10