The professional troll factories (that tend to get quiet when Russian office hours are done...) have used browser automation for years already - and they pay the $ whatever for the blue checkmark to get to the top of people's replies.

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owebmaster 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> that tend to get quiet when Russian office hours are done.

So you are saying the bots go to sleep? Not a very smart allegation.

	▲	vidarh 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		"Bots" have for a very long time now to a lot of people meant people who are following instructions/being paid to post/reply rather than only scripts.
	▲	theshrike79 43 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		"Bots" being actual humans in literal office buildings feeding and flaring up misinformation and dissent online. They've upgraded to AI's recently though, usually the first response is a canned AI thing but if you keep arguing you'll get an actual human.