I agree, or it could be them trying to find out how to deal with these botnets in such a blundering way they lose all credibility for a decade. What a stupid fucking idea either way. The DoD isn’t going to be winning themselves any benefits greater than what they’ll lose when this inevitably gets leaked.

I don’t think you understand how botnets work. They generate engagement and activity for their posts by engaging with their peer bots in order to get into algorithms. Definitionally when you get a network you expose the whole one. So these bots interacting on such a small scale indicates they were testing something rather than actually deploying it as a mass campaign.

The Iraq war was popular because the public and media were out for blood and the government made a convenient lie lol. Not because the CIA got into your internet chat rooms.

> But experts said it was largely ineffective. On Facebook, 39 accounts, 16 pages, and two groups were removed, as well as 26 accounts on Instagram, for violating the platforms' policy against "coordinated inauthentic behaviour".

> But experts said it was largely ineffective. On Facebook, 39 accounts, 16 pages, and two groups were removed, as well as 26 accounts on Instagram, for violating the platforms' policy against "coordinated inauthentic behaviour".

Lol no they can’t