Cynically mass influencing opinion is immoral. Using automated software to do that is doubly immoral.
The fact that Russians are doing this is not controversial, it is widely documented. Whether they’re doing it here is perhaps questionable, but then again, Lemmy and its APIs are free to use so why wouldn’t they.
If you really think that bots are this effective, then why don’t liberals create their own bots?
If you think they don’t work then what is your problem with them?
That’s not at all what I said though, is it?
All I said was that people can be forgiven for being confused when so many Russian apologists are echoing Kremlin talking points.
How are they supposed to know the difference between an apologist vs a Kremlin bot?
Please do tell?
They can’t. I guess the game is over.
What are liberals supposed to do if they can’t just label something to dismiss it?
Cynically mass influencing opinion is immoral. Using automated software to do that is doubly immoral.
The fact that Russians are doing this is not controversial, it is widely documented. Whether they’re doing it here is perhaps questionable, but then again, Lemmy and its APIs are free to use so why wouldn’t they.