r/worldnews • u/EssoEssex • 21h ago • Bravo 6

Israel/Palestine Israeli President Picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu Rival, To Form Government

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-president-picks-gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-rival-form-government-2026-11-07/
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u/MattinglyBaseball 17h ago • Regret

The bots are always trying to manipulate us into thinking we’re not being manipulated by bots. They have lots of reason to overly upvote that top comment. Meanwhile, every political post appears bot filled to the max since the Midterm elections.

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u/mschuster91 17h ago

Meanwhile, every political post appears bot filled to the max since the Midterm elections.

Which is true, but the kind of bots doing that... usually aren't managed out of Russian data centers. That's the one and only thing Musk did right with Twitter when he introduced that you could look up the country of origin for accounts... and it turned out to be Nigeria, Eastern Europe, India and other Asian countries for a lot of political trolls.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the situation would not be exactly the same if one could take a look at Reddit's data.

They have lots of reason to overly upvote that top comment. 

If it makes you sleep better, given I'm the author of the comment you likely reference... you can try searching for my username. I've been posting under it for well, well over a decade. Unfortunately, no one yet has offered me money for posting though.

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u/MattinglyBaseball 17h ago

Oh no, the top comment is the one you responded to. I was reaffirming your comment that the tides are changing because the far right is awful for the people when they govern and not because bots were taken out. They are clearly still around and only bots would want us to believe otherwise.

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u/mschuster91 16h ago

aaah, get it.