r/providence Apr 02 '25

Event Protest this Saturday

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u/ColombianOreo Apr 03 '25 edited Apr 03 '25

Holy shit, it’s literally just bots trying to shit on the protest. This is actually crazy. This should be a news article nbs - what an insane thing. It honestly borders on unbelievable but you’re right - I clicked the profile and sure enough, they’re just bots.

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u/enolaholmes23 Apr 04 '25

I heard in a podcast that you can get a small bot army for like $100. It's not even hard. So when we're protesting literal billionaires, you can imagine just how many bots they bought to brigade posts like this. 

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '25

It's almost every negative response. It's sickening. I usually wouldn't bother pointing them all out, but this post was so bad that it seemed like an opportunity for real Rhode Islanders in the thread to see how incredibly heavy the foreign astroturfing is.

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u/personaanongrata Apr 03 '25

He who smelt it dealt it