Every social media site is overrun by hundreds of Russian bots, some worse than others (Meta products). What can we do to combat this? Should those of us who don’t want to live in a fascist dictatorship be running our own bot farms? Something has to be done to change the iron grip they have on the narrative of history and reality to the common man.
How can I make leftist bots to fight this plague?
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ITT: “Why you think it Russian bot, comrade? Russia never hack!”
There’s enough available research to show that Russia is running massive bot programs, you’re either living under a rock, ignorant, or it benefits you to deflect from the issue.
Edit 2: The user with the name like dimesix (I’ve blocked them) has gone through and downvoted all the comments he could on my profile. I wonder why this thread upsets him to such a degree that he’d do that?
It irritates me a lot when posters edit their original post with “ITT” with claims as if it were prevalent. From what I can see, at that point there were three comments, and only one of them said what you paraphrase-change-quote and reply to. Just reply to that comment. Which you didn’t do at all.
This approach feels evasive passive aggressive to me, and not constructive. Maybe a first step to combat them would be to reply in-place and not let them stand without context/answers where they are.
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Respectfully, and I have never asked this of anyone before, but can you just ignore my thread? You and I clearly do not see eye to eye, and I can’t see a reason for us to converse. This thread won’t hurt you if you ignore it. Thanks.
I’m interested in the topic, so I opened it and joined the discussion.
While I could have ignored the “ITT” note, it’s part of the post, and this time, I pointed out how I see them, with full reasoning. You could have ignored the comment.
You could have not left it.
Delusional! This guy wants only agreement. Anything else is bot behavior!
You’re definitely not a bot because a bot would never do something so absurd.
Okay, you have actively gone through my profile to find comments of mine to downvote and comment on, you are blocked.
You can block me. But that won’t save you from my downvotes, dummy.