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Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by jessaustin on Thursday January 28, 2021 @11:56PM (#25954128)
They pay the trolls...

It's interesting that this phenomenon is obvious in a commercial situation, but rarely considered in political situations. Are we sure that the activists most salient to social media are anything like the groups they claim to represent?

Re:Facebook shuts popular stock trading group amid GameStop ... by detaro on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:00AM (#25954161)
What? Fake/troll accounts in political discourse are widely discussed and studied, probably more than commercial ones (if you don't count obvious spam, which obviously is a focus of lots of attention at least internally to vendors, less so in open research).