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by Fellshard 1872 days ago
Are you kidding? The account of astroturfing on behalf of NN was far more widespread.
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smt88 1872 days ago
Why would NN need astroturfing when it's wildly popular?
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SpicyLemonZest 1872 days ago
It wasn't a matter of need - it was just trivially easy to do. New York says they traced 7.7 million faked pro-NN comments to a single college kid who doesn't seem to have done anything more complex than run a script.
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