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astroturfing·Against Astroturfing and Social Media ManipulationbyMedia Sensationalism

Thoughts on FluentInFinance's homegrown bot campaign? They frequently make posts like this trying to raise the bar for what defines a wealthy individual.

You'll know it's their bot because the account is suspended and the profile page can't be viewed. They deliberately get the account shadowbanned and manually approve the posts from the moderator queue so users can't scrutinize the account's post history. I suspect they're buying upvotes because the posts frequently make it to the front page despite top comments being critical of the message.

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That sub became a right wing propaganda sub if I recall correctly.

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Kind of off-topic, but when you consider the fact disability benefits for people unable to work due to disability are 8k per year in america, calling 150k lower middle class is crazy!

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The latter is correct. Automod quietly hides any comments containing words and language commonly used to point out what they're doing. I'm astounded the site admins let such boldness fly.

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Thoughts on FluentInFinance's homegrown bot campaign? They frequently make posts like this trying to raise the bar for what defines a wealthy individual. | Spyke