1. La Conexión Indisoluble entre Bots y Astroturfing.
Los usuarios perciben el astroturfing como una operación masiva que utiliza cuentas automatizadas (bots) o perfiles falsos para simular apoyo u oposición orgánica, a menudo con el objetivo de manipular algoritmos y narrativas. La sofisticación de estas campañas hace que la distinción entre un bot y una persona pagada sea cada vez más difícil.
- Astroturfing-as-a-service bot accounts post innocuous memes or apparently, act as civil yet pedantic reply guys to gain followers, and then once the audience is big enough they start propagandizing for the politicalcommercialetc agenda of a paying client.
- Can it be astroturfing if the fake grass roots group is all bots?
- Astroturfing cognitive warfare make it easy to hijack online narratives. Botsfake profiles poison real movements by tying them to extreme ideas or actions- drowning genuine causes in toxicity and swaying opinion.
- Ai profile pic, brand new account, only posted about this yall are falling for such obvious astroturfing.
2. Tácticas y Perfiles de las Cuentas Falsas.
Se describen patrones específicos para identificar cuentas de astroturfing: perfiles nuevos, pocas publicaciones orgánicas, uso de fotos de perfil generadas por IA, y un enfoque exclusivo en temas políticos o controvertidos. También se menciona la práctica de construir cuentas "durmientes" (sleeper agents) que ganan legitimidad antes de ser utilizadas para propaganda o la venta de cuentas antiguas a malos actores.
- If you see an account with runny dogshit takes and you check their profile and it is literally all replies to people and no organic posts, its probably astroturfing just sayin.
- Helpful ids - ai generated profilecover pictures, and they generally doesnt have id outside of their political beliefs.
- I keep being followed by fake progressive bots. Be extra careful with these, theyre usually sleeper agents for bots farms that use it for astroturfing later.
- Most likely bots that appear legit, but are actually owned by bot farmers. They accumulate a ton of followers then sell them to bad actors who use them for astroturfing and misinfo campaigns.
- They start out posting innocuous comments so that when they start astroturfing and you look at their account, it looks legit enough that you cant easily outright claim theyre a bot.
3. El Impacto y la Preocupación por la Autenticidad.
La proliferación de astroturfing genera una profunda desconfianza, haciendo que los usuarios cuestionen la autenticidad de las interacciones y el verdadero estado de la opinión pública. Se percibe como una amenaza a la comunicación genuina y un método de guerra de información que afecta la política, el comercio y la cohesión social.
- Theres a massive astroturfing op going on right now im staring to feel like most of the accounts on here arent real at this point.
- Astroturfing on social media was designed to fool journalists and politicians in particular about popular opinion and it is very effective.
- The manufacturing of public consent for ethnic cleansing, genocide, war, etc. Through astroturfing and bot farms is a cyberattack against the public. Why isnt anyone talking about this? its algorithmic brainwashing at an industrial scale.
- I am so jaded that its bot astroturfing or something, almost too much positivity. Still have to make up my mind about it here. So far so good though.