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While I tend to avoid conspiracy theory type thinking, the nature of modern social makes it very easy to run astroturfing/botting campaigns. It's reasonable to be suspicious.
Bot campaigns seem pretty cheap when your business is making chat bots
Or if you have access to click farm type propoganda resources
Or you're a government with endless funds at your disposal.
It’s easy to write a bot. You just ask ~~ChatGPT~~ DeepSeek for the code.