Andrew Bustamante

They experience, I don't know, poverty or whatever else.

And then, you know, friends die because of this war.

It doesn't take long for narrative to turn and...

Andrew, where does your skepticism come from?

What's it rooted in?

Because you did spend almost a decade as an undercover spy for the United States in the CIA.

Where is the skepticism coming from?

Why shouldn't we believe people on the ground who are saying what they're saying?

So who do you trust to get your information from?

I have to say something.

I am a little bit sceptical about what is true I'm like the furthest from ever being a conspiracy theorist but a little bit sceptical of what's true because I did a post about this subject and obviously I've spent 15 years in social media so our whole business was scaling huge social media audiences and what I received in my DMs was like I've never seen before about what?

I've heard people talking about bots for decades.

And most of the time, they're actually wrong.

It's something else going on with the algorithm or maybe something they don't like they saw, so they call it a bot.

I received thousands and thousands and thousands of DMs when I posted about this subject matter.

And some of those accounts, when you go on the page and you look at their posting history, their engagement, you look at certain patterns, which we've built tools before to kind of spot.

Some of these accounts aren't real.

And I said to my friends, I was like, what the fuck, I posted about this issue.

And then I had thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of these accounts DM me, encouraging me to post more about certain things.

First time in my life ever I go, oh, that was definitely, it was so atypical.