1/ I started noticing lots of people I follow and consider smart were on the "followers you know" pages of malignant troll accounts. I asked three of them this morning why they followed so and so. None remembered doing so. They could've be lying. And three is small. But...
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2/ Has anyone looked into bots that: - Generate follows for mundane looking accounts (e.g. consultants); then, - After some threshold, switch over to political propaganda?
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3/ It's really easy to do. And, it allows bot accounts to infiltrate a subpopulation they couldn't access directly by means that get obscured through time and easy-to-change screen names.
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it seems like in terms of total work/reward you would have to consider the group in question worth the additional time to play that out when often you could just be creating more bot accounts to spam your hashtag
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I think it is worth the reward though. Ones that span communities may be good at generating attention. Or, at least, are easy to sell for a few bucks each on the markets for buying mature, bot-ed accounts with high followers.
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