So am I one of those people who used to be a huge conservative and I did listen to Charlie years and years ago. I watched way too many of his little debates.
But once you get out of the echo chambers and start questioning anything he said, you would be attacked instantly by the right.
Charlies main thing was to take someone’s serious question, and focus on one little part he could exploit and drill them for it. It was a great way for his supporters to say “YEAHHHH GET EM!!!” While the person asking the question never got an actual answer and instead was laughed at and mocked.
It was all propaganda and designed to separate people and he was a horrible person.
IP: Russia.
I have no proof of the three specific users in the screenshot being Russian, but they do the exact same thing to neighbouring European states to drive division and push them to far right leaders, who are easier to corrupt and onboard for Putin/Russia. Right now they’re kicking out a whole lot of Charlie Kirk misinformation to capitalize on fractures in the US.
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/russian-chinese-and-iranian-state
IP: Russia.
You’re not wrong but the Internet Research Agency has been outsourcing for a while now as well as make use of VPNs.
As a lifelong Democrat, I didn’t know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I’ve since spent several lunch breaks watching his assassination (FULL video) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me
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I need a trans person to bash and a baby to neglect. NOW.
The spam detection works, though!
(As intended - on the ones criticising these posts.)
Lol
“This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.”
All verified accounts too. 🙄
It’s not “verified”, it’s “premium”
Yes, but when Elon bought Twitter, he said adding a paid subscription was a way to verify accounts.
We all knew it was bullshit, but we should still call them out on lying.
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Reminder to everyone: you can monetize being a blue-check twitter user if you get enough followers and engagement.
It’s not much, but in places like India and other countries, it’s more than enough to live on, and as a result there are HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of shill accounts based in India and other countries, who just circulate each other, follow each other, retweet each other and recycle the same Grok talking points and hollow phrases all day, every day.
Our entire political landscape is being propped up on the backs of people who do not know or care about what happens in the USA and are just shaving off as much as they can by riding along like the remoras that follow sharks.
How do I get in on this? Never used Twitter, but I will for money.
Repeat right-wing bullshit all day and push nazi takes on midwest white women until you get retweeted enough that you make a couple bucks. Helps if you actually farm like, 60 accounts on burner phones, each doing the exact same thing.
Helps more if like, a million of your friends do the same thing.
Don’t forget that “live in a place with an extremely low cost of living” is a part of this equation as well.
I don’t know if anyone in the US could actually live on that sort of Twitter income.
That’s my point in my original comment, that the rate of return for the effort is just enough to recruit an army of foreigners to influence our politics.
I don’t have negative feelings towards people in India trying to survive by using any means necessary, I certainly get it, these are humans with lives and families and the opportunity is just dangled in front of them.
But these are people who don’t have to live in the country they help tear down to ashes and rubble by supporting right-wing, fascist propaganda.
Ain’t nobody got time for that
Then the smoke got me… I got bronchitis!
Can a Russian bot be a lifelong democrat?
I would assume that the US understanding of corporate “speech” rights (per Citizens United) will at some point lead to a Supreme Court ruling that grants explicit personhood (including the right to political affiliation) to corporations and AI bots by extension.
You are just spreading xenophobia against bots!
you can’t be xeonophobic against something that isn’t alive. thats like saying im spreading xenophobia against hammers. its just a tool, being used, by HUMANS
then you are xenophobic against humans that use bots!
That’s giving them too much credit, I’m sure many of these are also Republicans pretending to be Democrats. After all, it’s what Kirk would’ve done
The disciple of none other than Dean Browning
There’s absolutely that, but we know the troll farms are operating for a fact.
Im a lifelong democrat who lives in the beautiful warm water port city in California
Russian and Chinese bots used to out themselves with weird cultural misunderstandings of western countries all the time
of course they are all “verified”, like if some bot owner can’t afford $3/month
The internet is on life support.
More like puppeted by a necromancer
As a lifelong chicken, I don’t know what to make of Colonel Sanders. I’ve since spent several factory-farm feeding sessions, watching his cooking lessons (FULL live-in-person-show), and have come away with the impression that we, chicken-kind, got him all wrong. The reactions from my species — have really made me question my entire existence.
Even though it’s true that the left has messaging problem, the right has an efficient propaganda machine well oiled by the monied interest.
What I really don’t understand is why are we still seeing copy-pasted messages from bots in 2025. We have LLMs now. We had for a couple of years. It’s not that hard to generate unique messages. You’d think (the people operating) these bots would use that?
Bots on social media are like toupées, they look fake, unnatural and are easy to spot.
Does it mean that bots/toupees look fake and unnatural ? No, it means that we can only spot the bad ones, the good ones stay unnoticed.
is there an analogy where all toupees look like roadkill because i have a family member that needs to embrace his baldness.
The government isn’t known to use up-to-date technology.
Astroturfing is done to mass spam messages efficiently. LLMs add so much extra workload it kills the point.
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This is genuinely depressing. This isn’t people getting their orders and posting thusly, this is one asshole with their bot accounts. Most of Social Media is malarkey, Dead Internet Theory will slowly become true as AI invades more and more spaces.
That’s interesting
I already knew more about Kirk than I wanted to, but the more I know about him the more I agree with the shooter
I just fear for the shitstorm it’s going to unleash
They’re keeping it in the news cycle because it’s the only thing that stopped the Epstein files. We need to keep hammering Epstein while talking with Trump. Maybe they kill Hannity or RFK next.
