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dialup_sounds | 3 months ago

The boring but more likely explanation is that "most addicted" is just a weird statistic that produced weird results.

Eglin has something like 50,000 people but it's actual population as a census designated area is more like 5000.

Oak Brook, IL was also "most addicted" but people didn't run with the idea that McDonalds HQ was running psyops.

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tracerbulletx|3 months ago

I mean they should. Because corporate influence networks exist just as much as state run ones do.

dialup_sounds|3 months ago

There's a Popeye's at Eglin, maybe all that traffic was a chicken sandwich influence campaign?

ffsm8|3 months ago

Urm. They almost certainly are though?

It was generally being called astroturfing when it got more apparent on Reddit in the early 2010s, and definitely didn't get less after.

dialup_sounds|3 months ago

The point is that a vaguely defined throwaway line on Reddit's blog is not great evidence for either.