Against Astroturfing and Social Media Manipulation

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Pointing out, fighting, spreading awareness about State sponsored and Company sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.

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Well thats crazy explicit astroturfing (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/astroturfing

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13586199

Taking the fight to Reddit... FOR MONEY.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I just found out that those pages to buy votes exist, I knew that bots and stuff existed, but I thought it was something more "hidden", from 4 cents per vote, it doesn't surprise me that the site is completely going down the toilet

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

it’s so essy to make a bot too. And reddit is earning loads through the API so they don’t bother to stop it.

[–] Restaldt 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You dont even need api for upvote farming

Its like 3 lines of selenium

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If you do it en masse, reddit detects it and sends your account a warning. It’s purposefully built to make you use the API.

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