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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by alistairSH on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:38PM (#29657353)
Yep. I see it locally with shill groups acting at the behest of real estate developers.
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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by xxpor on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @11:56PM (#29658799)
And then there's the other side of it, where people accuse people on the other side of being shills with 0 evidence. It's extremely common in NIMBY v YIMBY fights.
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Re:Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter by ethbr0 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:36AM (#29660536)
That's why accusing someone of shilling with is in extremely poor taste.

It's effectively impossible to prove (or refute), so why waste thought and text on it?

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