They definitely do automated spamming as well but ever since Covid and Ukraine the ruling pro-EU pro-US right wing party here (south EU peripheral s-hole) has been using its own party members to spam all YouTube channels that belong to local TV channels that repost TV news clips and allow comments (most don’t) with completely undisguised, crude af pro-NATO, pro-Israel, pro-US, pro-EU crap pretty much every day all day and using the same accounts. All boosted with bot likes while replies are usually all negative by normal people. It’s simple clownery that probably works somewhat and there are definitely low ranking goons in similar orgs that crave such an easy mode s-posting desk job. Prior to that in the 2010s it was the neonazis who did similar campaigns. I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t work at all but they do it anyway in the sloppiest way possible just to pocket the EU funding.
It’s harder to see it as clearly in Anglophone reddit etc because it’s been going in for far longer plus there are far more shills like vaush, destiny etc that make these hot takes sound more real and organic.
It’s nothing as high level as the CIA though. It’s the various “anti-misinformation” bureaus that have pretty visible funding usually that people think are classy fact checking ops when in reality they’re just facebook and youtube spammers and bot operators. All this came about simultaneously with search engine algorithms becoming useless, for obvious reasons.
Bot farms are pretty cheap for organizations such as the CIA. Actually, people like you and me can probably afford it. I haven’t tried though.
They definitely do automated spamming as well but ever since Covid and Ukraine the ruling pro-EU pro-US right wing party here (south EU peripheral s-hole) has been using its own party members to spam all YouTube channels that belong to local TV channels that repost TV news clips and allow comments (most don’t) with completely undisguised, crude af pro-NATO, pro-Israel, pro-US, pro-EU crap pretty much every day all day and using the same accounts. All boosted with bot likes while replies are usually all negative by normal people. It’s simple clownery that probably works somewhat and there are definitely low ranking goons in similar orgs that crave such an easy mode s-posting desk job. Prior to that in the 2010s it was the neonazis who did similar campaigns. I wouldn’t be surprised if it doesn’t work at all but they do it anyway in the sloppiest way possible just to pocket the EU funding.
It’s harder to see it as clearly in Anglophone reddit etc because it’s been going in for far longer plus there are far more shills like vaush, destiny etc that make these hot takes sound more real and organic.
It’s nothing as high level as the CIA though. It’s the various “anti-misinformation” bureaus that have pretty visible funding usually that people think are classy fact checking ops when in reality they’re just facebook and youtube spammers and bot operators. All this came about simultaneously with search engine algorithms becoming useless, for obvious reasons.