[godelski]

> If you were to join twitter for the purpose of campaigning, I imagine you'd have a lot of bot like behavior.

To add to this, that yang subreddit actively encourages people to create Twitter accounts (if you don't already have one) to participate. It is definitely an agenda that is pushed. Lots of new Twitter accounts that are pro Yang is not surprising if you visit the subreddit. It also shouldn't be surprising that these accounts would be associated with MAGA bots and supporters. After all, Andrew is targeting the same demographic as Trump. There's several posts a day on the yang subreddit about ex-Trump supporters turning.

All of this makes me think that it is very hard to distinguish bots from real people who are excited by the campaign.

So I fully agree with this

> I think it's a mistake to assume that politically disengaged folks who would like to stay anonymous online, and are only joining a social media platform to promote their candidate or two, would behave like "real" users.

[DalekBaldwin]

> To add to this, that yang subreddit actively encourages people to create Twitter accounts (if you don't already have one) to participate.

Not only that, Yang ran a couple of UBI-themed contests offering a chance to win money for following and retweeting him. What better use is there for acquiring an army of fake accounts?