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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I legitimately believe Elon uses a bot army.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

The good news is they have vastly overrated range and break in the rain

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

He probably does there was once a reddit post that linked to the job posting for "Internet influencers" for him. I think that was about 5 years ago and if he did that then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It definitely makes sense, you control the narrative online, and dumb people gobble it up and regurgitate your propaganda. Even bigger tinfoil hat theory is that it's a part of why he bought Twitter. They were going to weed out bot accounts n he probably flipped out n thought he could buy his way out of that problem. No actual evidence, but wouldn't be surprised in the least.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

he doesn't need a bot army, he has plenty of fanbois

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Imo both things can be true