Did they really "fall for it" or were they just laundering the intent to publish false information through incompetence?
e.g. bunch of old accounts with random bursts of activity, often posting to old / stale threads (e.g. 2-3 days old, when no one is looking at them), and often saying generic one liners or regurgitating summarizations of top / most upvoted points.
except when the posts were about some hot topic, bet you can guess which ones...
AWS AI Researchers put bot traffic as high as 50% across the internet in this study from June 2024: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05749
cebert•2mo ago
acheron•2mo ago
It’s a little janky, presumably Meta has a few developers constantly working to hinder it. But still can mostly get rid of that kind of crap.
vpShane•2mo ago
Installing it, scrolling down was constant sponsor ads being blocked, reels of women from bot accounts that steal influencers' videos and repost them, new-age spirituality memes 'Let go of what does not serve you' and 'Return to Source to find your real self' - quotes from philosophers who never said the quote, 'How to hack' tutorial images -- all removed from fbpurity
I'd have to scroll for a minute before getting anything from the local community groups, the shelter's posts, and rarely did I see somebody else's post, and usually it was talking about Trump or politics or 'are we in a simulation?' but for the most part it's all brain rot.
Toxic, deceptive brain rot. There's no use trying to get others to exit the psychological magnet that has them hooked and doom scrolling and posting non-stop with their views.
The botfarms would plague every local community group and most people activity were calling out the bots. Bots swaying the comments on posts' comment sections for local news, people getting LIVID in the comments over trolls/bots.
Businesses being FB exclusive only with no Google presence, no maps presence.
Delete it, trust me, you'll be happier. There is no 'purity'
xnx•2mo ago
hackerknew•2mo ago