Shill and bot shop operation exposed

[devil21]

Not that seasoned net veterans didn't know about them or anything but a fascinating read regardless. Everything from corporate shilling to campaign shilling to government shilling (for and against), to even staging events so that the shill and bot network can latch onto the fake event to push a narrative online.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...atars-team-jorge-disinformation-fake-profiles

Informed about the identity theft by the Guardian, Van Rooijen said he felt “quite uncomfortable” seeing his face beside a tweet expressing views he disagreed with. “I give a lot of workshops to school classes about news, media, journalism and fake news. I teach children weekly that their identity can be stolen by a Twitter bot,” he said. “I never thought my own identity would be stolen by a bot.”

Van Rooijen is likely to be among tens of thousands of unsuspecting victims whose images have been harvested by Team Jorge.