Tek Fog: An App for Cyber Troops to Automate Hate, Manipulate Trends
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Even without tools like this, the BJP are already known to have groups of people employed to push their messages across social media and reply to any dissenting posts.
It's a shame Congress is so bad at keeping up with the times to mount an effective counter party. While the AAP are too small.
I'm not saying it isn't true.
The point is, I would have loved to have something like this back in 2009-2012.
How do they verify phone number OTP's? Do they have access to SMS data through telecom companies too? SMS OTP's are insecure anyway.
I've created two accounts, one where I mostly watch left-wing videos and one where I watch more right-wing videos. Mostly local news and political discussions.
From the comment sections, it seems that the left-wing videos are very often 'under attack', as if someone sees a new upload from a channel and shares the link in a group, where group members comment (and dislike, RIP) in a negative way and about semi-related topics. Mostly conservative rhetoric and lately conspiracy stuff as well. Also upvoting of similar comments and negative replies to comments from 'normal' viewers.
I don't see it that often anymore in the past few months, but last year it looked like an obvious pattern to manipulate the discussion. Maybe the comments are all from unconnected individuals, but it felt unnatural and coordinated.
Actually you don't need sophisticated tools for this, just create a WhatsApp/Telegram group with a couple hundred fanatics that share links with each other to bash/hate on.
Their shareholders absolutely deserve an explanation.
I don't think that's possible.