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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  1329 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 82% of net neutrality comments to the FCC were fake

I had a Facebook post go viral when I talked about the importance of Net Neutrality, and how they would eventually break the internet down into glorified cable tv.

I got around 200 friend requests from legit-looking people... real profile photos, locations, some minor history of posting things, etc... but when you looked closely at each of these accounts, you realized they were fakes.

I still have that list. Most of those accounts still exist.

I'm pretty sure that the bot-farm that operates these real-looking accounts are just waiting for the next customer to come along and pay the bot-owner to promote specific content amongst legit-looking accounts.

Not sure what to do with this info. But maybe someday Glenn Greenwald could make use of it...