• hinterlufer@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I find it really interesting that almost all of the recent comments on the YouTube video are 95% the same and praising “how great all this transparency” is, completely drowning out all other comments. They’re also worded very very similarly.

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      1 month ago

      There is a similar phenomenon on Tiktok. The accounts often have similar name structures, have no picture or some USA flag type pic, but what gets me is that they all have around the same amount of followers or people following them.

      Then people will make entire videos to engage with the bots… Drives my blood pressure up when I see it.

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        I read a while ago about someone doing forensic analysis using the heuristic of analyzing follower count numbers. I forget the exact mechanism, but certain patterns indicate that the follower count was statistically anomalous and therefore likely couldn’t be trusted.

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      1 month ago

      Looking at their profiles, they don’t look like bots to me. Maybe it’s just that MAGAs sound as stupid as a bot swarm.