Theory: political bots are effective bc by liking/RTing human posts they provide a feeling of social validation. It's Pavlovian conditioning
Merely having a large network of human-looking bots liking posts can allow you to steer public opinion entirely through pos. reinforcement.
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that's the whole principle of the russian trolls and sady, the french fachosphère too
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