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We are all at it, though. Astroturfing is really common and to be honest it would make zero sense not to do it if you were the leader of any nationstate. Where's the line between advertising campaigns, guerrilla marketing and mouthpiece social media accounts? There's no international agreement about this stuff and plus everybody else is already doing it so why take the high road?
I always remember how around 10 years ago Reddit used to publish user data stats and stuff. They revealed that a US air base was the "most Reddit-addicted city" in the world. They don't publish this stuff any more lol.
https://web.archive.org/web/2016060...5/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html
You basically can't trust anything published on the internet from any political position and now that untrustworthy vat of information is where AI LLMs are getting their information from. The 'trust me bro' sources carry the same weight as anything else.
As a Scot I accept that there likely were attempts to push pro-independence positions by Russian sources. Why would they not? We platform Russian dissidents over here with an intent to destabilise the political situation in Russia. The dumbest thing to me is the meatheads who voted Brexit to avoid EU influence on the UK and now think Russia doing the same in Eastern Europe is great.
That was a bit of a ramble, sorry!
I always remember how around 10 years ago Reddit used to publish user data stats and stuff. They revealed that a US air base was the "most Reddit-addicted city" in the world. They don't publish this stuff any more lol.
https://web.archive.org/web/2016060...5/get-ready-for-global-reddit-meetup-day.html
You basically can't trust anything published on the internet from any political position and now that untrustworthy vat of information is where AI LLMs are getting their information from. The 'trust me bro' sources carry the same weight as anything else.
As a Scot I accept that there likely were attempts to push pro-independence positions by Russian sources. Why would they not? We platform Russian dissidents over here with an intent to destabilise the political situation in Russia. The dumbest thing to me is the meatheads who voted Brexit to avoid EU influence on the UK and now think Russia doing the same in Eastern Europe is great.
That was a bit of a ramble, sorry!
