Swarms of paid bots are routinely used to drive influencers into more radicalized stances. It is a trap that many have fallen into.

An example: No matter what one thinks about the Israel/Gaza conflict, many young conservatives have believed that thousands of their followers are anti-semites. They have been pushed into writing and saying more and more outrageous things - frankly racist things. They have crafted their posts to be more and more anti-semite, to appeal to their followers, but the sad truth is that the vast majority are probably paid bots.

As a result, their voices have been completely marginalized. They are shadow-banned, and in the case of Candace Owens, have been banned from Youtube, not welcome on most conservative media outlets anymore, and have essentially removed themselves from the game. Who benefits? Probably foreign actors or a liberal group -trying to pull votes away from Trump. This is just one example.

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