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This leads me to a thought based on observation I mull over time to time. The thought is that a significant portion of alleged human interactions across the internet are actually machines and scripts. The event just verifies that people can indeed be fooled by well arranged scripts and algorithms. Taking that point and appending it to the fact that we know some intelligent people have wielded quite large bot farms for seemingly frivolous things; it's probably not too much of a stretch to say they've used them for manipulating people via apparent social interaction on the internet.