my tinfoil conspiracy theory is that entities with malicious goals deploy bot nets to like, share, and comment on tweets (or not) en masse to manipulate what people think and write through audience capture

bringing onchain communities together • events.xyz (@event)

BDFL of Quilibrium, Eng @ Farcaster, ex-Coinbase, always opinionated, never hydrated

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It's not a conspiracy, and it's well documented on how it can be done and measured: https://ncr.mae.ufl.edu/papers/auto15_2.pdf

Definitely not a theory, fwiw I think it's a business model to gain an edge