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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean, they've been all over Reddit running accounts for decades at this point, no? At this point I feel like 75% of my interactions on mainstream sites are going to be from foreign agents and/or bots.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They've got to be at least 75% of /r/worldnews.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They simply ban you there for a mere criticism of Israel, which has nothing to do with their T&C. By now this subreddit turned into an echo chamber of likely minded bots and trolls.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

They will site ban you for reporting the shill accounts too, even when they're flagrantly violating the TOS.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

You can trust me. I am human.

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[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And they keep telling us Russia and China are the threat we need to be afraid of

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The real enemy was marketing this whole to time.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 6 points 5 months ago

"He's going after that anti-marketing dollar, that's a lucrative market."

[–] BlueBockser@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait till you find out what Russia and China are doing on Facebook

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What they might be doing is still not as much a threat to society as what the US and its allies do.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

Why not both?

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just assumed that almost all activity on faceboot are bots.

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bots and grandparents getting fleeced by bots.

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

But how can we say no to helping the Prince of Nigeria!?

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

forget to pay your bill and Zuck will throw you to the wolves

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 11 points 5 months ago

Yeah. I'm not buying for a minute that anything was "discovered", other than that they didn't pay their protection bill. Meta/Facebook seems to have tolerated worse and more obvious abuses for decades.

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Any post about Israel on Threads still has a comment section filled with non-posting accounts that only comment water-muddying dreck about Hamas.

It's rampant. Hasbara is busy.