Astroturfing by Authoritarians

someone needs to do the obvious follow up in the us, with all the sock puppet accounts here:

If these estimates are correct, a large proportion of government web site comments, and ~0.6% social media posts on commercial sites, are fabricated by the government. The posts are not randomly distributed but, as we show in Figure 2, are highly focused and directed, all with specific intent and content.

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