One of the takeaways of AM being hacked was that a ton of accounts were fake, and existed to create the idea of a busy site, to add social proof and validity-by-numbers.
The AM hacks were like decade and change ago, and Tate’s fanbase is mostly younger. I’m sure there is some overlap but probably small.
Wonder how many were bots, like Ashley Madison, that exist to pump numbers and increase engagement
Welp never buying anything D-Link ever again
Most countries give customs and border agents broad latitude to do stuff like that. I’ve had it happen in Vietnam, the US, and Turkey, among others.
Burners, all the way
Wtf is a hasbara
Sounds like he hated the writing. Shame, that was a strong point in the series
No one give af cuz Epic sucks?
Chaebol. Zaibatsus are in Glorious Nippon, Chaebols are Korean. But same concept, and just as terrible.
Evil megacorp declines to be less evil, news at 11
Good. Fuck the LEC system, let anyone have a crack at it
…a weapon to surpass Metal Gear
Two D’s, for a double dose of his pimping
The term is greenwashing, and it worked
More eyeballs.
Enough updoots or retweets and other algos pick up on it. Some random twitter discussion ends up on BuzzFeed, YTers start making influencer vids, and Reddit / Lemmy repost bots.
Do this enough and it’ll gain traction. Now everyone is talking about your stupid fuckin Stanley mug, corporate rumor,or political talking point.
And this can be automated end to end, 24/7, by market and keyword, will real time feedback as to how well it’s doing via upvotes, shares, likes, or even data mining emails and convos via Gmail or WhatsApp.
This also makes it so that botting is only accesible to select few actors that have the required resources i.e. russian troll farms or large bot networks from china, in turn this increases their value. This is very good for them.
I’d bet that is explicitly part of the funding model. Pay to influence consensus, cuz this is a publicly traded stock and numbers need to go up, regardless of who is paying.
There are so, so, so many other platforms for that, and many are far better
That’s 56 too much
America out there doing it before it was cool.
At this point their values are basically hyperreality and goading the population back to serfdom