This is what 4chan did for years to troll people. Adopt avatars of people of color, LGBTQ folks etc. It can disrupt social movements and create negative perceptions around certain groups or identities.
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Malaclypse the Fetus
My pet theory is they are trying to minimize the voices of real people with the "identities" they are creating. Is that really a single black queer mom of two or another bot? It is not a coincidence every bot we have seen was an ethnic, if not religious, or sexuality minority...
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Sock puppets, impersonations, and disruptors!
It's not enough that these techlords support politicians and policies that suppress these voices?
Rather I expect Meta/Zuck to sanitize & isolate people by surrounfing thrm by bots who would *feel* like a (“healthy”) echo chamber:
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Also expect it to backfire & confirm the worst racist/lgbtq-phobic/fascist tropes imaginable.
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Don't sanitize hate and bigotry even a little.
As mentioned this exact behavior has been seen in decades past, it's not new, it just has new tech.
I also firmly believe none of what I wrote is somehow positive.
Isolating people to feed them exactly what you want to feed them = brainwashing/Truman Show 101 & certainly will be abused by fascists
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