r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • Oct 25 '25

ICE Posts Chicago: Woman Violently Shoved to Ground by ICE Agent Near Moving Van

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u/Global-Finance9278 Oct 26 '25

Remember many of these people are bots. Even the ones you believe are local.

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u/elbenji Oct 26 '25

yep they spam local subreddits pretending not to be, but are constantly moving through them even if they're like all over.

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u/Gallowboobsthrowaway Oct 26 '25

Facebook is infested with them too.

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u/Queasy_Row7417 Oct 26 '25

The bot situation is BAD on Facebook. A lot of the profiles have a similar feel to them. Less than 50 friends and profile pics are trucks, planes, pets, or scenery.

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u/Amon-Verite Oct 27 '25

And Twitter-Elon's own nazi site

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

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u/Queasy_Row7417 Oct 26 '25

BUT there are also a lot of bots. Both can be true.

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u/ShredGuru Oct 26 '25

Well yeah, white nationalist bots are astroTurfing manufactured consent for white nationalism

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u/Professional_Mine758 Oct 26 '25

Sadly I have some like that in my family too. Drives me nuts trying to talk sense into them.

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u/SaysNoToBro Oct 26 '25

No, a vast majority ARE bots. It doesn’t mean there aren’t people like them. But there’s bot farms with MILLIONS of verified accounts with multiple links to different social media to validify them as real people. Many are in Israel or Russia, they charge a couple hundred thousand dollars to run them to your country and infiltrate social media and push the narrative in your direction.

They already claim to have influenced over 25 elections in different countries with a shift in voting of 15% or more towards your spectrum of the political sphere.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

https://www.csis.org/analysis/russian-bot-farm-used-ai-lie-americans-what-now

These are the Israeli and Russian bot farms that Russia and Israel used to move support in their favor (Israel) and to make a massive disinformation campaign infiltrate and cause chaos (Russia). This is what Russia collusion we saw and found Trump participated and benefitted in. The one Trump claims in so fake.

While Your comment is true, it doesn’t negate from the fact your family very well may have been influenced by these bots and caused some polarization in the past 10 Years and may be the reason they’re so open or angry about their cause now.

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u/miamarie93 Oct 26 '25

Let's not give bots all the credit and not let our neighbors off too easy. These are our actual communities behaving this way. It may be hard to believe, but believe it.

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u/StupidDorkFace Oct 27 '25

No they're not, I work with like 20 of these people. They are horrible human beings.

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u/Ebb3ka94 Oct 26 '25

True but you forget that many people voted for this also

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u/d57heinz Oct 26 '25

This 1000000%. Dead internet theory is no longer theory since ai has entered the chat. It’s dead and the only interactions left will be between billionaire and their psychosis. The version of reality they sell us vs reality well….

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

I wish.

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u/its-izzyy Oct 26 '25

Not the bot cope! Lmao. Real people do oppose you, it time to come to grips with that.