"Bot farms" harvesting your attention
- sciart0
- Apr 25
- 1 min read
Excerpt: "Welcome to the world of social media mind control. By amplifying free speech with fake speech, you can numb the brain into believing just about anything. Surrender your blissful ignorance and swallow the red pill.
You’re about to discover how your thinking is being engineered by modern masters of deception.
The means by which information gets drilled into our psyches has become automated.
Lies are yesterday’s problem.
Today’s problem is the use of bot farms to trick social media algorithms into making people believe those lies are true.
“We know that China, Iran, Russia, Turkey, and North Korea are using bot networks to amplify narratives all over the world,” says Ran Farhi, CEO of Xpoz, a threat detection platform that uncovers coordinated attempts to spread lies and manipulate public opinion in politics and beyond."'