Jon Delaney

A perfect example, we had an article about the war in Ukraine, and it was giving both sides of Russia and Ukraine.

And this guy comments three sentences within, I'm talking seconds, about how Ukraine, something about Nazis in Ukraine or whatever.

And I'm like, this is humanly impossible.

Click his profile.

Look at him.

He's tagging his wife in pictures.

Click his wife.

His wife has an account, 600 followers.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, dude.

Wow.

These are sophisticated bot networks that have been set up by foreign actors.

And this isn't new, okay?

But a lot of people don't realize this.

Like every couple months, meta will come out or...

Microsoft does these reports where they'll say, we identified all these bot networks, and then they start shutting them down, or Meta will announce they took down 5,000 accounts or whatever.

But people don't understand the scale of it.

So you might read a news article instead of, you might read a headline, and then instead of reading the article, you just go to the comments to see what people are saying.

They're trying to influence how you think.

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