being anywhere but here makes me feel like i'm going insane when it comes to knowing whether or not you're talking to a real human being. haven't checked if anyone else has covered this as it seems most takes are related to consumer stuff like product shilling bots. but my own theory that is probably a fact is how the CIA pays either (probably a mix) of bots, 3rd worlders, and other agents to spread misinformation online. like this shit actively disrupts your algorithms on various social media sites.
reddit has bots pushing a far left agenda. redditors have pointed out a lot of posts that make it to the front page were already there years ago and all the comments were exactly the same. most of the posts on there are fake. certain keywords trigger certain responses. some lady made a post about moving to a city in a subreddit for my state and immediately 10 different comments all saying a variety of the exact same thing appeared. they all took her post out of context and was completely unrelated to her original question. i think her post was something like "is it safe for a young woman to move here?" with mentions of trafficking fears and the snarky lib pro-immigration bot comments flooded in. you could say hivemind but none of them were responding back to her when she was questioning them and the timing was unnatural.
instagram is the worst for this. so much ragebait. there are people taking shit completely out of context (e.g post saying they love cats and a comment goes "so you're saying you wanna kill dogs?" level of ridiculous). all profiles behind it are blank profile pics, no followers, private, some variation. also all the racebait posts where the accounts are never based in the US, always some 3rd world country. i get so irritated during election year because my feed will force neo nazi shit down my throat because it knows i'm white and the algorithm will push certain things onto you depending on your demographic. my theory is its an attempt to "radicalize" me/other people. it's like if you put your gender as male on there, no matter now much you don't interact with the content, put you're not interested, the algorithm will always keep shoving naked bitches on your feed because it wants you to be a coomer. coomer = easier to manipulate/control.
but anyways, those ragebait comments are so obviously fake. and it works because it gets the reader angry and creates further divide between them and other americans. the entire point is to keep you angry with eachother and fighting. same as it ever was with the sjw vs feminist get pwned videos years ago, and most recently trannyism vs normal people. now i think one of the "newer" ones is childfree people vs tradfamilies.
more recently AI videos have been popping up trying to push some agenda. i don't know if any of you ever got onto RedNote, but i did and a few of us were discussing with the chinese various propaganda efforts we were both witnessing. the chinese told us about how the US embassy tries to pay people to spread misinformation about china. they take videos or articles completely out of context because the average american can't speak mandarin of course. one chinese friend told me that there were some organizations trying to stir up protests related to men and women's rights (tried to claim inequality or something) and they found out the organization was being funded by the US. after that the org quietly disappeared. feel how you want about china, all of it tracks with typical US antics.
all of this is why i don't believe anything i see online and am bordering on another psychosis episode because i don't know who is real in the fucking instagram comments
edit:i forgot to mention with the rednote shit popping off there were a lot of either AI generated/filters over people's faces and chinese americans making a lot of videos calling americans colonizers, telling them to get off the app and that the chinese don't want them there. meanwhile actual chinese people were like, don't believe them please they're full of shit.
so the internet is dead and it's just CIA funded propaganda and bots
