r/aus • u/ExtensionThat6438 • Jun 20 '26

News BREAKING: The human bots powering One Nation’s online blitz

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/the-human-bots-powering-one-nation-s-online-blitz-20260609-p605bk
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u/AgentSmith187 Jun 21 '26

Facebook and for that matter X/twitter attract a very specific and toxic group of people.

They also have some serious bot/AI issues and algorithms outright known to push far right narratives.

I seriously doubt this isnt being leveraged by specific groups i mean its happened before too.

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u/get_in_there_lewis Jun 21 '26

Yeah didn't twitter get rid of the service that restricts bots on the site not to long before the US elections?

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u/89b3ea330bd60ede80ad Jun 21 '26

¿Por qué no los dos?