OpenAI et a16z financent des centaines de faux comptes OnlyFans sur Twitter.
Ces « M-bots » amplifient les messages anti-régulation du super PAC Leading The Future. Mécanisme révélateur : l'industrie IA prône l'autorégulation tout en manipulant massivement le débat public.
Paradoxe assumé de la Silicon Valley.
#Astroturfing #RégulationIA #Factualité
https://da.van.ac/openai-finance-une-armee-de-bots-pornographiques-pour-gonfler-ses-soutiens/
CBC: Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism. “Nieta Aqila is among 14 overseas accounts CBC identified in four popular Alberta independence Facebook groups. The accounts have posted politically divisive content about Alberta separatism, Western annexation and other hot-button Canadian topics within the past two months.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/09/cbc-facebook-is-paying-people-overseas-promoting-alberta-separatism/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1B2cWEaWDw
#3Dprinting #GhostGuns #Enshittification #OpenSource #Astroturfing #MichaelBloomberg #LouisRossmann
[P] I wish this was the kind of world where Reddit could be hit witb a big criminal investigation. For anyone who knows how to find the evidence (age of account, posting pattern, homogeneity of language across "different" accounts), it's 100% obvious that astroturfing on Reddit is ubiquitous. And the Reddit founders encourage astroturfing because they profit from it. They do all they can to enable it.
#psychology #actuallyautistic #criminal #law #illegal #astroturfing #reddit
RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/edmonton-5aq1688az/-/a-f0FOYkMVS4Ch76SvyRhs7w%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
Shocking.
Last year, Elections Alberta levied more than $120,000 in fines against TBA and Parker for violations of election finance law. The violations include failing to report income from fundraising activities, circumventing election advertising limits and knowingly making a false statement to the chief electoral officer.
The Elections Alberta disciplinary webpage says the fines have been referred to debt collectors, that TBA has appealed some findings, and some matters have been referred to the Crown for prosecution.
Edit: quoted post seems to be stuck in ‘post pending’ land. Link:
#Google is drawing some well deserved #backlash and #hatred for this move on fora like HN. But it's too little too late. Too many among us #betrayed the community by discrediting those who raised the #alarm when it was obvious that Google would try it again. Classic #astroturfing and #sockpuppeting.
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"...The latest front is in Michigan, where the Ann Arbor Responsible Energy Coalition (A2rec) appears to be a local, grassroots organization opposing a public power campaign in the upper midwest city of about 123,000 people. But state filings show its mailing address was One Energy Plaza – the headquarters of DTE Energy, the deeply unpopular private utility giant that serves Ann Arbor...."
The Guardian: Powerful US utilities secretly fund ‘grassroots’ groups to sway cities away from switch to public power
As communities push for publicly owned electricity, private utilities may be deploying dark money and local front groups to stop them
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/may/07/us-utilities-fund-groups-against-public-power-lobby
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