[hypeit]

How is it a botnet? Apple isn't going to allow botnet like behavior in any app it approves in the app store.

[ceejayoz]

The humans it feeds content into are the botnet.

For example, it's alleged that Russia promoted competing rallies on both sides of the political divide in the US in hopes of sowing discord in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency#Ralli...

[hypeit]

A human is not a bot. In addition to being dehumanizing, it removes agency to say that.

[rjmunro]

Didn't they already, in effect, DDOS the congress telephone system?

[hypeit]

No, they did however increase engagement in democracy in a very dramatic fashion. More people making demands from their government is a good thing.