GalacticSushi

Forget getting the money back. We’re not even gonna see companies lower their prices.

Yeah this isn’t “you’re busted for fucking over the little guy,” at best this is “you’re busted for fucking over the little guy without giving us our cut.” They pay a cost of doing business fine and carry on with their bullshit.

They can hide what they want, and promote what they like. No need for accounts to vote/share, it can happen behind the scenes. Why have 10k bots to vote on things that you control?

Because bots can do so much more than just vote? They can push narratives, repeat propaganda, and inject talking points directly into conversations in real time. Comment sections are ripe for manipulation.

It’s basically the same thing governments have paid troll farms to do, but now it can be automated.

They also want it to astroturf propaganda on social media.

… You needed a whistleblower to tell you this?

All people are equal, but some people (in this case, the corporate entries that are objectively not people) are more equal than others