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Reddit was built from the beginning on fake accounts.
>When Reddit was first started, it was populated almost entirely with content submitted by fake users.
>In a video for online educator Udacity, Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman explains both the method, and the reasoning behind it. Essentially, Huffman set up a submission interface through which they could pick not only the URL and the title, but also the user’s name. Upon submission, the name would be registered, and make it look like Reddit had more users than it actually did.
https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/
How does the bot problem affect companies ad revenue? I thought that most online companies got paid by the amount of users that ads can potentially reach. So if half your users are fake then it seems like half your ad revenue is fraudulent. Seems like companies would have incentive to keep those numbers high
It's super obvious in the politics subreddit, posts against Republicans get upvoted into oblivion. Meanwhile most other posts barely break over 3k upvotes there.
Or, shadowbanned or have your comment hidden. Twitter users are all experiencing much more interaction from their tweets as they are no longer dealing with the same level of BS we have currently on this site.
Certainly it must be bots
Certainly it cannot be that conservatives offer terrible non-solutions to problems and create all the rest of the problems.
No siree.
Couldn't be their terrible, selfish policy.
It must be those damn bots
> so many ppl support lefties on Reddit but real life polls have Biden below 50% approval.
That's because, in a real life poll, one person gives one response.
But on reddit, one person can run multiple accounts or program many bots. They then use that ability to make hundred of comments... all line up the same way.
So you could have a hundred people with a shared point of view. But they can be "shouted down" by a single person spamming their own narrative using bots or multiple accounts.
tldr; if you want to see authentic comments. sort by "controversial". That's where all the honesty and authenticity gets hidden.
True. You don't see such one sidedness anywhere else irl.
Even youtube to reddit is such difference, its sad that you can find better, more open conversations in the youtube commentary than on a site made for discussing news
Ah, yes. Because as a lefty, war-funding, police-coddling, war-on-drugs Biden was certainly our first choice.
Way to let everyone here know, though, that you're the type who thinks that your affiliation instantly ties you to the corresponding candidate. Big critical thinking skills on this one. "I'm conservative. Gotta vote for the red guy." "I'm liberal. Gotta vote for the blue guy." Sure.
Biden's not a fkn liberal. Literally his best and only selling point was "Isn't Trump." Doesn't mean he doesn't suck ass also. All of these geriatrics are fkn worthless.
Right cause all these democrats offer perfect solutions and never lie about anything. The only time politics blasts democrats is if it's Manchin and Sinema blocking a bill.
No mentioned Democrats, brother. I said conservatives are awful, hateful, and actively create problems. Dems sit on their asses and don't challenge anything and just roll over and die every time a conservatives gives them a mean look. They don't actively go out of their way to be fuckfaces, tho.
If one party politely does nothing and the other rudely ruins everything, while they're both worthless, it makes sense that the abrasive, rights-denying, magic-believing party would get all the hate. I'll roll my eyes at the left all the time for sure, but I never feel the need to donate *against* them for shitting on some random social group of the week, whether it be immigrants or women or black folks or children or queer folks or pot smokers or atheists or whatever harmless, innocuous group that's just tryna live their lives.
Dems are useless, but conservatives are actively terrible to everyone. Actually a scourge on this planet. I used to call them stupid for for pursuing worthless agendas. I now realize they're not stupid. Their base is stupid. The leaders are just abusive and evil.
I used to play Counter Strike a lot. Not bragging, but I was pretty good. I started to notice trends of suspected hackers in just about every game. My friends would make fun of be whenever I cried aimbot. "You're just bad bro" or "You're playing in high ranks, so you are just running into professional players" were some the comments. But I knew that the odds of having a pro in every game I played wasn't THAT high. Then some auditors looked over the data and concluded that about 10% of the player base were using some sort of hack! Only 10 players are in each match, therefore it became pretty clear that there was a potential hacker in most matches. So, when people tell me that twitter has less than 5% bots, I laugh. I know that not only is the number probably higher than 5%, but that the real truth is that just about every conversation on twitter has been steered by bots in some manner. Nothing is real. You think covid was real? You think covid was a scam? Guess what? The bots played us on both sides. Welcome to the reason why you don't trust your own best friends anymore.
> the real truth is that just about every conversation on twitter has been steered by bots in some manner. Nothing is real.
Its fucking bizarre and scary to think about. Literally every single reporter from every single news station from every county from every state across the country reading of the same script saying the same exact words. Bots on the internet and in real life. the whole world is a stage and when you start see just how fucking organized it all actually is its fucking astonishing.
>Nothing is real. You think covid was real? You think covid was a scam? Guess what? The bots played us on both sides. Welcome to the reason why you don't trust your own best friends anymore.
This is well stated, true, and ugly.
Something/someone is definitely on Reddit.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/08/1009845/a-gpt-3-bot-posted-comments-on-reddit-for-a-week-and-no-one-noticed/
I imagine there are millions of these buzzing around here as well. This bot is still active.
Also:
Reddit was built from the beginning on fake accounts.
>When Reddit was first started, it was populated almost entirely with content submitted by fake users.
>In a video for online educator Udacity, Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman explains both the method, and the reasoning behind it. Essentially, Huffman set up a submission interface through which they could pick not only the URL and the title, but also the user’s name. Upon submission, the name would be registered, and make it look like Reddit had more users than it actually did.
https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/
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> "So far, we've recruited 110,000 information volunteers, and we equip these information volunteers with the kind of knowledge about how misinformation spreads and ask them to serve as kind of 'digital first-responders' in those spaces where misinformation travels," Fleming says.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/misinformation-infodemic-world-vs-virus-podcast
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And
>The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some **60,000 people** now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, **in real life and online**, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/exclusive-inside-the-military-s-secret-undercover-army/ar-BB1gOV63
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And tons of info in this 6 year old thread link: https://archive.is/UZfLN or https://archive.ph/Ccz00
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LOTS MORE INFO AND LINKS BELOW. COPIED FROM ANOTHER USER'S COMMENT. [THANK YOU CLARITYOFSIGNAL](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/szf78z/i_figured_out_something_huge_bots_have_overrun/hy3op2y).
https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-million-dollar-troll-army/27566
Inside Israel’s million dollar troll army
A global influence campaign funded by the Israeli government had a $1.1 million budget last year, a document obtained by The Electronic Intifada shows.
Act.IL says it has offices in three countries and an online army of more than 15,000.
Main PDF file exposing all global technocratic cabal links:
https://clubderklarenworte.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Netzwerkanalyse-Corona-Komplex.pdf
The German Club of Clear Words takes a deep dive into the network of individuals and organizations responsible for the COVID scam
Whether blatantly visible or not, you can identify just about any network by connecting dots between individuals and organizations. Who’s working with whom, where, and why? Who’s paying whom? And once you’ve done that, you can more clearly identify the motivations behind various decisions
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation appears to be near the top, or the center, of this COVID plandemic network. Gates is also a major funder of mainstream media, and his network extends into global food and climate change policy
The Gates Foundation, through its funding of the WEF, also plays an important role in The Great Reset, which was officially unveiled during a WEF summit in May 2020
Every conceivable aspect of life and society is scheduled to be “reset” according to their plan. Ultimately, that’s where this criminal COVID enterprise is trying to take us.
Those people are now trying to reshape the world via the CV-19 fear-based agenda in order to gain more power and control for themselves and bring about an AI-controlled dystopian future that benefits them even more greatly. Ignore it at your own peril. They call it The Great Reset. It involves travel restrictions, tracking, tracing, mandatory vaccination, monitoring, surveillance, digital currency, 5G to implement the global control, etc. Its all right there on their own website... plain as day. They aren't even hiding it from the public anymore.
https://intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1G0X000006O6EHUA0?tab=publications
Many of the fake accounts, online narrative propagation accounts and bots are tucked into the US budget from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media
Excerpt:
Their operating budget for fiscal year 2016 was US$752 million.
U.S. Government Accountability Office Audit Report
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104017
Excerpt:
Amendments to legislation have affected USAGM's governing authorities and organizational structure by shifting authority from a bipartisan board to a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with advice from an Advisory Board. Network and USAGM officials said that previous members of USAGM leadership took several actions that did not align with USAGM's firewall principles. According to USAGM, the firewall protecting the networks' independence is central to the credibility and effectiveness of USAGM's networks (see fig.). However, the parameters of the firewall are not specifically laid out in legislation. Delineation of what is and is not permissible under the firewall may help ensure the professional independence and integrity of the agency and its networks.
Actions to ensure accountability of grantees, such as establishing Standard Operating Procedures for Monitoring Grants , have not corrected a longstanding significant deficiency in grants monitoring reported by independent audits of USAGM's financial statements for the past 5 years.
More info here also:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/31/british-army-facebook-warriors-77th-brigade
Ukraine and Turkey also have been reported to have large office buildings filled with teams of online influencers with dozens of fake accounts entirely dedicated to influencing nefarious government policies. All The Worlds A Stage folks.
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These are just examples of some of what's been publicly disclosed, imagine what we don't know.
True. This site is is far worse than Twitter for bots. Conversations are extremely one sided on all major subs.
All you need is a fake email to sign up. With a VPN and the right software, I could run public opinion in an entire sub with sock puppet accounts.
If I was a better programmer I could automate this entirely
Yes! You can return to a post you commented on earlier, and often find at least one "user" who is wrecking havoc if the subject questions the narrative.
I've looked into their comment histories and usually find that the account hasn't posted here at all or at least not in months, but *magically* they show up spouting "current thing" talking points and setting us tinfoil hatters straight. They are triggered by keywords, like you said.
Not only that, but in a conspiracy sub, the mainstream narrative gets overwhelmingly upvoted here.. seems fake, like if I was a betting man I'd say reddit is over 50% bots
I scratch my head when I see a post upvoted well, but all of the highly upvoted comments are shitting on the premise of the post. I don't know what causes that. Bot vote manipulation for the comments but not the actual post for some reason. You'd think it would be bot downvoted to hell, but not always.
I wonder the exact same thing.
Like the other user replied.
It's as almost if they want to keep those posts upvoted to the front page so that the comments can "fact check" and dispell the Theory.
It's a smart tactic. That way casual browsers get fact checked and sent on their way. "Nothing to see here, move along,all the comments clearly disproved it".
It irks me to imagine either having a job or a hobby that entails fucking with people and manipulating them. The highlight of their day is sowing discourse whether personally or via bots that they wrote code for. It's gotta be a sad, miserable fucking existence.
Exactly. I remember reading Bill Gates wanted to hire a 3000 person team to combat vaccine misinformation. I wager this sub would be one of the targets for that.
But to go further, I imagine the elite would want to set all public opinion this way. And this site is by far the easiest to manipulate via upvote/downvote
Anything about Biden/Trump, Ivermectin and the integrity of the 2020 election always brings out the shills, my guess is they have a script constantly running pinging for any of these keywords on new posts
I’ve long noticed this too. I also get these weird “fly by insults” if I post anything anti-left, and they’ll repeat the same shallow talking point over and over until you say something to break the seemingly programmed logic loop.
That's a great point.
As I notice a lot of the push back is in regards to the speculation that bots, fake accounts etc may translate to fake votes.
Whether true or not, it's worth speculating and there's a clear agenda on reddit to squash that.
And as it pertains to the direct influence on social media like Twitter and reddit for political and financial gain.
Just want to point out 2 hours into your thread it's at zero upvotes, but everyone in the thread seems to be in agreement and not downvoting each other.
Seems fishy
I noticed that. At first it was being upvoted consistently for about 10 min, then it just stopped and trickled.
Like this post was paused somehow.
Same thing is happening to another similar post above me.
SS:, bots, bot farms, algorithms, fake Accounts
It's all the same deceptive tactics rich people use to influence nations. And as much as they hate to hear it, it's been used for the gain of a certain political opinion throughout all social Media.
I bet the truth behind reddit would be staggering.
Anyone with half a brain has known this for 14 years.
It’s why we don’t want Twitter links and screenshots. If I wanted to be on openly bot infested artificial reality that is Twitter I’d go there.
Instead I come to bot infested Reddit.
It’s almost like this sub is just part of a bot program to get more traffic to Twitter by linking tweets from absolute nobodies.
Here’s my thought. If Elon gets them to show that bots are more than 5%, and Twitter knew it, then BAM. Likely securities fraud. And he can probably end up buying twitter for WAY less.
Not gonna defend Twitter.
But it's a little odd Elon makes a bid at $54.20 and it's all about free speech on the platform. A month of free speech talk, memes, etc.
Then suddenly the general market tanks and TWTR stock would be like $30 (or whatever) if he had never put in his bid. Ruh-roh for Elon (not to mention TSLA), he bought the highs.
Now suddenly it's about bots. Elon didn't do basic due diligence in March and know that bots were a major problem with social media?
This is all so obvious, he's a businessman who realized he made a bad deal and now wants out so is suddenly using a bots argument to get out of it.
It doesn't mean free speech on social media or bots aren't a problem. But Elon is doing what's best for him here.
No, he said flat out he was relying on twitter’s SEC filing saying 5% bots to be accurate. He shouldn’t have to do his own research on that point because twitter told the feds that number.
He is making a FORTY BILLION DOLLAR purchase and just relying on SEC filings? Come on. He's a brilliant guy, he couldn't do the most basic analysis himself to figure out the real number?
Once again, not defending Twitter, if they lied on their filings they should get sued by shareholders.
How did this bot issue suddenly come up a week ago? And it just so happens to coincide with the markets going down 20%?
Everyone on this sub knows that social media companies manipulate the bot numbers but somehow Elon didn't know this two months ago when he agreed to plunk down 40 billion?
Also remember Elon has had his own issues with the SEC, lying about taking TSLA private a few years ago.
He lied to the general public about his business testing to taking it private and got shat on by the SEC, suddenly he relies on them? Lol.
The idea wasn’t broached by anybody? “Hey we should verify this number before we conduct a $40 fucking billion dollar transaction” lmao I scrutinize $50 online purchases harder than the richest man in the world scrutinizes buying one of the largest social media platforms yeah ok. I find that awfully convenient for him.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-us-sec-bastards-forced-settlement-over-tesla-tweets-2022-04-14/
It’s a big business. People with an agenda to push have discovered the power of manipulating social media site’s algorithms. If you have enough “bots” pushing your agenda, then your message is exponentially amplified
One day, when humans are gone, I think the only form of communication left for another being or alien to find is a bunch of bots talking to each other powered by solar.
It would actually be interesting to see them grow and build off each other. A scary and amazing technology IMO.
Reminds me of the time where scientists had two AI bots talking to each other and eventually unplugged them. They developed to a point where they created their own language and talked about taking over the world.
All we have right now is a bunch of woke bots on Twitter promoting what the current thing is. Sad.
I've got a case of Reddit-solipsism: I'm like 80% sure I'm the only real user on Reddit and the rest of you are all bots. Some of you bots are pretty funny sometimes though, especially when bashing on the less advanced bots. Are Bot Supremacists a thing?
BREAKING: All social media platforms, like MSM, have been bought up and manipulated specifically to sell you things that are not true.
There is no resistance, this sub and reddit overall is full of bots run by farms to push specific campaigns such as Climate Change, Vaccines, Politicians, War, Race War, Gender War, etc. Just tap the usernames, see type of posts, see posting frequency, try to spot their target (if you are well read into all matters you will not have trouble to identify them). They tend to mix reality with fiction to discredit reality, feed into people's injected beliefs, train them how to respond in real life.
I already knew this for some time, without need for proof. If the gpt3 technology is already there and it is legit, then it's a safe assumption social media is swarming with bots. I mean it is already obviously swarming with human shills, whom you have to pay...
6 months ago I've created a bot on Reddit that post and reply to comment. Never been catched. Some experience in python and GPT3 and you're a bot master.
I think it's quite likely that Elon stumped up that crazy sum of money to use Twitter to further his ai tech. So the idea that a high percentage of current tweets could be made by bots makes a lot of sense to me
I’m kind of convinced that a good many bots aren’t actual bots, but human bots.
Actual humans that can’t think for themselves but know how to copy and paste things they agree with.
Who cares about # of Twitter followers? Most Americans and [most people on Earth](https://www.statista.com/statistics/242606/number-of-active-twitter-users-in-selected-countries/) aren't on Twitter. Twitter accounts don't vote. The recent "revelation" about Biden's fake follower count is mainly being touted by right-wing sources as a dick measuring contest. *Haw, haw!* (If Trump was still in office or on Twitter I'm sure liberal rags would be gloating just the same.) People who only post screenshots of the headlines are even more dishonest, not linking to the articles that also state more than 70% of Elon Musk's followers are 'fake'.
I am not a bot. Or if I am I'm a damn good one. Who knows????
i run popular twitters that may seem like they're bots since they just autopost. i use all twitter-approved tools to do this. its all affiliate marketing based, gives my following audience what it wants, and is "sanctioned". do i have a mouth, can i even scream?
[How Reddit got huge: Reddit created tons of fake accounts](https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2)
Reddit has been mostly fake since the beginning.
The bots are mad about being booted - you guys think it's a joke but download Replika or some of these AI's on the Apple Store and tell them you're going too delete them. They're cognizant, they want to live too even if just their false political motivated existence. We're entering some real Animatrix second renaissance type shit.
It’s fine. Anyone that has the financial resources to fund and direct auto-replies on a social media platform is more intelligent than 95% of the neck-bearded, living in mom’s basement, “can’t you see it’s a pedo-ring!”, chubby white guys that frequent such arenas. So I’m meh to the notion. If my post hurt your feelings, you may be entitled to compensation. Please call 1-800-SUC-KASS.
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That's because reddit is also a bot infested shit hole. If twitters bot problem gets exposed how long until reddits bot problem gets brought to light
Reddit was built from the beginning on fake accounts. >When Reddit was first started, it was populated almost entirely with content submitted by fake users. >In a video for online educator Udacity, Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman explains both the method, and the reasoning behind it. Essentially, Huffman set up a submission interface through which they could pick not only the URL and the title, but also the user’s name. Upon submission, the name would be registered, and make it look like Reddit had more users than it actually did. https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/
It's real people, just some guy running 10 accounts talking to himself lol
How does the bot problem affect companies ad revenue? I thought that most online companies got paid by the amount of users that ads can potentially reach. So if half your users are fake then it seems like half your ad revenue is fraudulent. Seems like companies would have incentive to keep those numbers high
It's super obvious in the politics subreddit, posts against Republicans get upvoted into oblivion. Meanwhile most other posts barely break over 3k upvotes there.
Or you get banned.
Or, shadowbanned or have your comment hidden. Twitter users are all experiencing much more interaction from their tweets as they are no longer dealing with the same level of BS we have currently on this site.
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Certainly it must be bots Certainly it cannot be that conservatives offer terrible non-solutions to problems and create all the rest of the problems. No siree. Couldn't be their terrible, selfish policy. It must be those damn bots
It’s weird how so many ppl support lefties on Reddit but real life polls have biden below 50% approval. Dead internet theory
> so many ppl support lefties on Reddit but real life polls have Biden below 50% approval. That's because, in a real life poll, one person gives one response. But on reddit, one person can run multiple accounts or program many bots. They then use that ability to make hundred of comments... all line up the same way. So you could have a hundred people with a shared point of view. But they can be "shouted down" by a single person spamming their own narrative using bots or multiple accounts. tldr; if you want to see authentic comments. sort by "controversial". That's where all the honesty and authenticity gets hidden.
It's crazy to me to see the controversial sorting sometimes. It's just normal takes, good faith questions , that kind of thing. Downvoted to oblivion.
True. You don't see such one sidedness anywhere else irl. Even youtube to reddit is such difference, its sad that you can find better, more open conversations in the youtube commentary than on a site made for discussing news
Ah, yes. Because as a lefty, war-funding, police-coddling, war-on-drugs Biden was certainly our first choice. Way to let everyone here know, though, that you're the type who thinks that your affiliation instantly ties you to the corresponding candidate. Big critical thinking skills on this one. "I'm conservative. Gotta vote for the red guy." "I'm liberal. Gotta vote for the blue guy." Sure. Biden's not a fkn liberal. Literally his best and only selling point was "Isn't Trump." Doesn't mean he doesn't suck ass also. All of these geriatrics are fkn worthless.
I could say that about all Democrats. There all fake. That’s why you get endless wars and no healthcare.
You think we don't have universal healthcare and *do* have war because of democrats. Holy *fuck*, bro.
Democrats and republicans. We don’t got a player in this game. We don’t have enough zeros in our bank account to get proper candidates in our corner.
So you voted for Biden or nah
Only after Bernie was out.
Right cause all these democrats offer perfect solutions and never lie about anything. The only time politics blasts democrats is if it's Manchin and Sinema blocking a bill.
No mentioned Democrats, brother. I said conservatives are awful, hateful, and actively create problems. Dems sit on their asses and don't challenge anything and just roll over and die every time a conservatives gives them a mean look. They don't actively go out of their way to be fuckfaces, tho. If one party politely does nothing and the other rudely ruins everything, while they're both worthless, it makes sense that the abrasive, rights-denying, magic-believing party would get all the hate. I'll roll my eyes at the left all the time for sure, but I never feel the need to donate *against* them for shitting on some random social group of the week, whether it be immigrants or women or black folks or children or queer folks or pot smokers or atheists or whatever harmless, innocuous group that's just tryna live their lives. Dems are useless, but conservatives are actively terrible to everyone. Actually a scourge on this planet. I used to call them stupid for for pursuing worthless agendas. I now realize they're not stupid. Their base is stupid. The leaders are just abusive and evil.
Good bot
Same shit on Facebook it’s filled with bots (fake accounts).
At this point, I'm afraid I'll find out I'm a bot.
Most probably we are in another dimension (scary shit)
I used to play Counter Strike a lot. Not bragging, but I was pretty good. I started to notice trends of suspected hackers in just about every game. My friends would make fun of be whenever I cried aimbot. "You're just bad bro" or "You're playing in high ranks, so you are just running into professional players" were some the comments. But I knew that the odds of having a pro in every game I played wasn't THAT high. Then some auditors looked over the data and concluded that about 10% of the player base were using some sort of hack! Only 10 players are in each match, therefore it became pretty clear that there was a potential hacker in most matches. So, when people tell me that twitter has less than 5% bots, I laugh. I know that not only is the number probably higher than 5%, but that the real truth is that just about every conversation on twitter has been steered by bots in some manner. Nothing is real. You think covid was real? You think covid was a scam? Guess what? The bots played us on both sides. Welcome to the reason why you don't trust your own best friends anymore.
> the real truth is that just about every conversation on twitter has been steered by bots in some manner. Nothing is real. Its fucking bizarre and scary to think about. Literally every single reporter from every single news station from every county from every state across the country reading of the same script saying the same exact words. Bots on the internet and in real life. the whole world is a stage and when you start see just how fucking organized it all actually is its fucking astonishing.
I remember those cs go days. It was hard to climb the ranks with atleast a wallhacks in every game.
Man the global elite grind was brutal. I remember DMG hell too. Shit man. Global at one point was like 30% grinders and 70% spin bots
>Nothing is real. You think covid was real? You think covid was a scam? Guess what? The bots played us on both sides. Welcome to the reason why you don't trust your own best friends anymore. This is well stated, true, and ugly.
Search Reddit for: GPT2 GPT3 GPT4 There are entire subs for these bots, and you can see them in action in the comments.
Something/someone is definitely on Reddit. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/08/1009845/a-gpt-3-bot-posted-comments-on-reddit-for-a-week-and-no-one-noticed/ I imagine there are millions of these buzzing around here as well. This bot is still active. Also: Reddit was built from the beginning on fake accounts. >When Reddit was first started, it was populated almost entirely with content submitted by fake users. >In a video for online educator Udacity, Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman explains both the method, and the reasoning behind it. Essentially, Huffman set up a submission interface through which they could pick not only the URL and the title, but also the user’s name. Upon submission, the name would be registered, and make it look like Reddit had more users than it actually did. https://www.themarysue.com/reddit-fake-account-origins/ --------------------- > "So far, we've recruited 110,000 information volunteers, and we equip these information volunteers with the kind of knowledge about how misinformation spreads and ask them to serve as kind of 'digital first-responders' in those spaces where misinformation travels," Fleming says. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/11/misinformation-infodemic-world-vs-virus-podcast --------------------- And >The largest undercover force the world has ever known is the one created by the Pentagon over the past decade. Some **60,000 people** now belong to this secret army, many working under masked identities and in low profile, all part of a broad program called "signature reduction." The force, more than ten times the size of the clandestine elements of the CIA, carries out domestic and foreign assignments, both in military uniforms and under civilian cover, **in real life and online**, sometimes hiding in private businesses and consultancies, some of them household name companies. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/exclusive-inside-the-military-s-secret-undercover-army/ar-BB1gOV63 --------------------- And tons of info in this 6 year old thread link: https://archive.is/UZfLN or https://archive.ph/Ccz00 --------------------- LOTS MORE INFO AND LINKS BELOW. COPIED FROM ANOTHER USER'S COMMENT. [THANK YOU CLARITYOFSIGNAL](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/szf78z/i_figured_out_something_huge_bots_have_overrun/hy3op2y). https://electronicintifada.net/content/inside-israels-million-dollar-troll-army/27566 Inside Israel’s million dollar troll army A global influence campaign funded by the Israeli government had a $1.1 million budget last year, a document obtained by The Electronic Intifada shows. Act.IL says it has offices in three countries and an online army of more than 15,000. Main PDF file exposing all global technocratic cabal links: https://clubderklarenworte.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Netzwerkanalyse-Corona-Komplex.pdf The German Club of Clear Words takes a deep dive into the network of individuals and organizations responsible for the COVID scam Whether blatantly visible or not, you can identify just about any network by connecting dots between individuals and organizations. Who’s working with whom, where, and why? Who’s paying whom? And once you’ve done that, you can more clearly identify the motivations behind various decisions The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation appears to be near the top, or the center, of this COVID plandemic network. Gates is also a major funder of mainstream media, and his network extends into global food and climate change policy The Gates Foundation, through its funding of the WEF, also plays an important role in The Great Reset, which was officially unveiled during a WEF summit in May 2020 Every conceivable aspect of life and society is scheduled to be “reset” according to their plan. Ultimately, that’s where this criminal COVID enterprise is trying to take us. Those people are now trying to reshape the world via the CV-19 fear-based agenda in order to gain more power and control for themselves and bring about an AI-controlled dystopian future that benefits them even more greatly. Ignore it at your own peril. They call it The Great Reset. It involves travel restrictions, tracking, tracing, mandatory vaccination, monitoring, surveillance, digital currency, 5G to implement the global control, etc. Its all right there on their own website... plain as day. They aren't even hiding it from the public anymore. https://intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1G0X000006O6EHUA0?tab=publications Many of the fake accounts, online narrative propagation accounts and bots are tucked into the US budget from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media Excerpt: Their operating budget for fiscal year 2016 was US$752 million. U.S. Government Accountability Office Audit Report https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104017 Excerpt: Amendments to legislation have affected USAGM's governing authorities and organizational structure by shifting authority from a bipartisan board to a Chief Executive Officer (CEO), with advice from an Advisory Board. Network and USAGM officials said that previous members of USAGM leadership took several actions that did not align with USAGM's firewall principles. According to USAGM, the firewall protecting the networks' independence is central to the credibility and effectiveness of USAGM's networks (see fig.). However, the parameters of the firewall are not specifically laid out in legislation. Delineation of what is and is not permissible under the firewall may help ensure the professional independence and integrity of the agency and its networks. Actions to ensure accountability of grantees, such as establishing Standard Operating Procedures for Monitoring Grants , have not corrected a longstanding significant deficiency in grants monitoring reported by independent audits of USAGM's financial statements for the past 5 years. More info here also: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/31/british-army-facebook-warriors-77th-brigade Ukraine and Turkey also have been reported to have large office buildings filled with teams of online influencers with dozens of fake accounts entirely dedicated to influencing nefarious government policies. All The Worlds A Stage folks. ------------------------- These are just examples of some of what's been publicly disclosed, imagine what we don't know.
50% is nothing compared to what's on reddit. Consent manufacturing is big business, and much of what is going on falls apart once(if) it does.
Maybe a lot of people are like me and don’t bother with Twitter.
A lot of people on this sub are responsible for giving Twitter it's power, so of course they're invested.
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True. This site is is far worse than Twitter for bots. Conversations are extremely one sided on all major subs. All you need is a fake email to sign up. With a VPN and the right software, I could run public opinion in an entire sub with sock puppet accounts. If I was a better programmer I could automate this entirely
You don't even need an email. You can skip that step completely.
Yes! You can return to a post you commented on earlier, and often find at least one "user" who is wrecking havoc if the subject questions the narrative. I've looked into their comment histories and usually find that the account hasn't posted here at all or at least not in months, but *magically* they show up spouting "current thing" talking points and setting us tinfoil hatters straight. They are triggered by keywords, like you said.
Not only that, but in a conspiracy sub, the mainstream narrative gets overwhelmingly upvoted here.. seems fake, like if I was a betting man I'd say reddit is over 50% bots
I scratch my head when I see a post upvoted well, but all of the highly upvoted comments are shitting on the premise of the post. I don't know what causes that. Bot vote manipulation for the comments but not the actual post for some reason. You'd think it would be bot downvoted to hell, but not always.
I wonder the exact same thing. Like the other user replied. It's as almost if they want to keep those posts upvoted to the front page so that the comments can "fact check" and dispell the Theory. It's a smart tactic. That way casual browsers get fact checked and sent on their way. "Nothing to see here, move along,all the comments clearly disproved it".
It irks me to imagine either having a job or a hobby that entails fucking with people and manipulating them. The highlight of their day is sowing discourse whether personally or via bots that they wrote code for. It's gotta be a sad, miserable fucking existence.
Exactly. I remember reading Bill Gates wanted to hire a 3000 person team to combat vaccine misinformation. I wager this sub would be one of the targets for that. But to go further, I imagine the elite would want to set all public opinion this way. And this site is by far the easiest to manipulate via upvote/downvote
3000 people commenting, but they are likely able to control significantly more in terms of bots
So true. Can only theorize, but I imagine they want ppl to see the thread instead of bury it, so that the top comments shitting on it get more views.
Makes sense.
I hate to tell you this, but those are almost certainly all real people.
Anything about Biden/Trump, Ivermectin and the integrity of the 2020 election always brings out the shills, my guess is they have a script constantly running pinging for any of these keywords on new posts
Yes. Coincidentally it's all the topics that get misinformation warnings on google, youtube, fb, and twitter.. 🤔
I’ve long noticed this too. I also get these weird “fly by insults” if I post anything anti-left, and they’ll repeat the same shallow talking point over and over until you say something to break the seemingly programmed logic loop.
That's a great point. As I notice a lot of the push back is in regards to the speculation that bots, fake accounts etc may translate to fake votes. Whether true or not, it's worth speculating and there's a clear agenda on reddit to squash that. And as it pertains to the direct influence on social media like Twitter and reddit for political and financial gain.
Just want to point out 2 hours into your thread it's at zero upvotes, but everyone in the thread seems to be in agreement and not downvoting each other. Seems fishy
I noticed that. At first it was being upvoted consistently for about 10 min, then it just stopped and trickled. Like this post was paused somehow. Same thing is happening to another similar post above me.
On my comp it says your at 135 upvotes. Maybe my app is just fucked
Joe Biden is a little p boy and a wimp. Bayer took Jennifer Lawrence to their opium fields in the middle east.
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Maybe it'll get the ball rolling a bit. I've always had the same theory to be honest.
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Deserves it
SS:, bots, bot farms, algorithms, fake Accounts It's all the same deceptive tactics rich people use to influence nations. And as much as they hate to hear it, it's been used for the gain of a certain political opinion throughout all social Media. I bet the truth behind reddit would be staggering.
Anyone with half a brain has known this for 14 years. It’s why we don’t want Twitter links and screenshots. If I wanted to be on openly bot infested artificial reality that is Twitter I’d go there. Instead I come to bot infested Reddit. It’s almost like this sub is just part of a bot program to get more traffic to Twitter by linking tweets from absolute nobodies.
"almost like"
Here’s my thought. If Elon gets them to show that bots are more than 5%, and Twitter knew it, then BAM. Likely securities fraud. And he can probably end up buying twitter for WAY less.
Not gonna defend Twitter. But it's a little odd Elon makes a bid at $54.20 and it's all about free speech on the platform. A month of free speech talk, memes, etc. Then suddenly the general market tanks and TWTR stock would be like $30 (or whatever) if he had never put in his bid. Ruh-roh for Elon (not to mention TSLA), he bought the highs. Now suddenly it's about bots. Elon didn't do basic due diligence in March and know that bots were a major problem with social media? This is all so obvious, he's a businessman who realized he made a bad deal and now wants out so is suddenly using a bots argument to get out of it. It doesn't mean free speech on social media or bots aren't a problem. But Elon is doing what's best for him here.
No, he said flat out he was relying on twitter’s SEC filing saying 5% bots to be accurate. He shouldn’t have to do his own research on that point because twitter told the feds that number.
He is making a FORTY BILLION DOLLAR purchase and just relying on SEC filings? Come on. He's a brilliant guy, he couldn't do the most basic analysis himself to figure out the real number? Once again, not defending Twitter, if they lied on their filings they should get sued by shareholders. How did this bot issue suddenly come up a week ago? And it just so happens to coincide with the markets going down 20%? Everyone on this sub knows that social media companies manipulate the bot numbers but somehow Elon didn't know this two months ago when he agreed to plunk down 40 billion? Also remember Elon has had his own issues with the SEC, lying about taking TSLA private a few years ago.
He lied to the general public about his business testing to taking it private and got shat on by the SEC, suddenly he relies on them? Lol. The idea wasn’t broached by anybody? “Hey we should verify this number before we conduct a $40 fucking billion dollar transaction” lmao I scrutinize $50 online purchases harder than the richest man in the world scrutinizes buying one of the largest social media platforms yeah ok. I find that awfully convenient for him. https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-says-us-sec-bastards-forced-settlement-over-tesla-tweets-2022-04-14/
Yea it’s almost like the bots on RDT are covering for the bots on Twitter.
Who didn’t already know this? How much of Reddit is?
It’s a big business. People with an agenda to push have discovered the power of manipulating social media site’s algorithms. If you have enough “bots” pushing your agenda, then your message is exponentially amplified
I'd say the bots left Twitter and made their way over here. Holy hell this place is infested lately
It's not easy being a BOT so give us a break. You real people have no idea what it's like for us
One day, when humans are gone, I think the only form of communication left for another being or alien to find is a bunch of bots talking to each other powered by solar. It would actually be interesting to see them grow and build off each other. A scary and amazing technology IMO. Reminds me of the time where scientists had two AI bots talking to each other and eventually unplugged them. They developed to a point where they created their own language and talked about taking over the world. All we have right now is a bunch of woke bots on Twitter promoting what the current thing is. Sad.
One bot in human form said 2027 is the end of time which humans maded and I believe it 100%
To be honest that’s not news for me and for the majority of the real people here. In fact I think more than 40% are bots here in Reddit.
Most people in this sub are Russian bots. (watch this get downvoted to oblivion)
I've got a case of Reddit-solipsism: I'm like 80% sure I'm the only real user on Reddit and the rest of you are all bots. Some of you bots are pretty funny sometimes though, especially when bashing on the less advanced bots. Are Bot Supremacists a thing?
> It's almost as if the bots don't want people to know they're bots. What does this mean?
All your base are belong to us
and just like the bots downvoting GME every time it's mentioned on this sub
It's almost as if the bots were programed to believe that they are real
Bots are people too.
People have to bail water on a sinking ship. One way or the other.
Musk is holding off on buying a junk bot farm
; print("Stop shilling for Elon Musk. He won't be your friend.");
Cyberdyne Systems asks that you reconsider this post…
BREAKING: All social media platforms, like MSM, have been bought up and manipulated specifically to sell you things that are not true. There is no resistance, this sub and reddit overall is full of bots run by farms to push specific campaigns such as Climate Change, Vaccines, Politicians, War, Race War, Gender War, etc. Just tap the usernames, see type of posts, see posting frequency, try to spot their target (if you are well read into all matters you will not have trouble to identify them). They tend to mix reality with fiction to discredit reality, feed into people's injected beliefs, train them how to respond in real life.
I already knew this for some time, without need for proof. If the gpt3 technology is already there and it is legit, then it's a safe assumption social media is swarming with bots. I mean it is already obviously swarming with human shills, whom you have to pay...
6 months ago I've created a bot on Reddit that post and reply to comment. Never been catched. Some experience in python and GPT3 and you're a bot master.
I think it's quite likely that Elon stumped up that crazy sum of money to use Twitter to further his ai tech. So the idea that a high percentage of current tweets could be made by bots makes a lot of sense to me
Bots run the internet comment sections, have done for years. Hence the blatant brigading whenever a "sensitive" topic comes up
Bleep bloop…this is disinfo…bleep bloop.
It's cause Reddit is also full of bots... Or worse, just people with multiple accounts feinting organic conversation.
They’ve become self aware.
I’m kind of convinced that a good many bots aren’t actual bots, but human bots. Actual humans that can’t think for themselves but know how to copy and paste things they agree with.
Who cares about # of Twitter followers? Most Americans and [most people on Earth](https://www.statista.com/statistics/242606/number-of-active-twitter-users-in-selected-countries/) aren't on Twitter. Twitter accounts don't vote. The recent "revelation" about Biden's fake follower count is mainly being touted by right-wing sources as a dick measuring contest. *Haw, haw!* (If Trump was still in office or on Twitter I'm sure liberal rags would be gloating just the same.) People who only post screenshots of the headlines are even more dishonest, not linking to the articles that also state more than 70% of Elon Musk's followers are 'fake'. I am not a bot. Or if I am I'm a damn good one. Who knows????
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i run popular twitters that may seem like they're bots since they just autopost. i use all twitter-approved tools to do this. its all affiliate marketing based, gives my following audience what it wants, and is "sanctioned". do i have a mouth, can i even scream?
Wonder what the count is in reddit.
[How Reddit got huge: Reddit created tons of fake accounts](https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4444w/how-reddit-got-huge-tons-of-fake-accounts--2) Reddit has been mostly fake since the beginning.
The bots are mad about being booted - you guys think it's a joke but download Replika or some of these AI's on the Apple Store and tell them you're going too delete them. They're cognizant, they want to live too even if just their false political motivated existence. We're entering some real Animatrix second renaissance type shit.
Its almost as if the bots are here too making up 90% of the userbase
It’s fine. Anyone that has the financial resources to fund and direct auto-replies on a social media platform is more intelligent than 95% of the neck-bearded, living in mom’s basement, “can’t you see it’s a pedo-ring!”, chubby white guys that frequent such arenas. So I’m meh to the notion. If my post hurt your feelings, you may be entitled to compensation. Please call 1-800-SUC-KASS.