Against Astroturfing and Social Media Manipulation

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Pointing out, fighting, spreading awareness about State sponsored and Company sponsored astroturfing on Lemmy and elsewhere. This includes social media manipulation, propaganda, and disinformation campaigns, among others.

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Well thats crazy explicit astroturfing (slrpnk.net)

submitted 6 days ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/astroturfing@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13586199

Taking the fight to Reddit... FOR MONEY.

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[–] Restaldt@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You dont even need api for upvote farming

Its like 3 lines of selenium

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

If you do it en masse, reddit detects it and sends your account a warning. It’s purposefully built to make you use the API.