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[WinterHold]

Visitors and readers:

Do you see the bots above my reply? they hammer each post with redundant content identical to what they posted yesterday.

Reader: in the internet of today; beware of bots. Learn so you may know how easy it is to make sock accounts managed by the same person.

I suggest - in what I hope is a friendly and helpful manner - that you stop making false accusations against the members here.

Boru

I was talking to visitors and readers about this:

Bots and trolls spread false arson claims in Australian fires ‘disinformation campaign’

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...lse-claims

This article is more than 4 months old
Online posts exaggerating the role of arson are being used to undermine the link between bushfires and climate change

Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...s-analysis

This article is more than 3 months old
Draft of Brown study says findings suggest ‘substantial impact of mechanized bots in amplifying denialist messages’

The charge of the chatbots: how do you tell who’s human online?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2...e-chatbots

Automated ‘voices’ that were supposed to do mundane tasks online also now spread hate speech and polarise opinion. Are they a boon or a threat?

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So Brian -if that is your real name-, please shhhhh and read the media. Maybe you'll learn something.