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On April 25th, Boris Johnson announced that he was ready to return to work, together with a post stating that says the Conservatives are “the party of the NHS.”
That is all good and well, until one glances at the comment section, filled with replies with a syntax error.
Evidently, the alleged Russian bots are under quarantine, or something of the sort, since the British support bots appear to be taking center stage, and they appear to be malfunctioning.
This isn’t the first time something of the sort happened, and the BBC explains it with “real people acting like bots.”
Back in November 2019, the same thing was observed.
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Some of the Boris “supporters” might actually be the result of automated activity, although the mainstream version is that there is no indication that anyone inside the prime minister’s campaign is behind it.
William Dance, a linguistics and fake news expert at Lancaster University says Johnson’s page shows “signs of inauthentic behaviour, with repetitious and duplicate comments.”
Even if most of the pro-Boris and anti-Boris messages aren’t actually posted by bots, that doesn’t mean automated campaigns aren’t a problem, says William Dance.
“Facebook has a major bot problem” he says. “In the first quarter of 2019 alone, Facebook removed over 2 billion inauthentic accounts. This is was almost as many takedowns as Facebook has daily active users.”
The thing is that if even actual users pretend to be bots, this can simply be used to hide the activity of actual bot accounts.
And still, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened.
Months ago, a tweet by Boris Johnson, before he became prime minister, received thousands of likes and retweets and most of them were very obviously fake accounts – thousands of them had no followers, no tweets and were brand new accounts.
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And, most recently, John O’Connell, founder of FRW Anti-Racism Group, reported that 128 fake NHS Staff accounts had been discovered, attempting to stoke “Herd Mentality.”
Regarding those 128 fake #NHS Staff accounts posting for ‘Herd Mentality’ and support of the Govt that were set up by @DHSCgovuk or their marketing agency …
Posts were sent using Hootsuite, a mass-posting tool. Account registered to 1 person with 4 assigned contributors. pic.twitter.com/r7fRFQaFwG
— John O’Connell (@jdpoc) April 20, 2020
O’Connell contacted the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care, to provide the information, but it declined to receive it.
.@DHSCgovuk are adopting a corporate ‘head in the sand’ ‘fingers in the ears’ approach to this matter, hoping it will be swept aside by ongoing news stories of a more serious nature.
After all, who cares about industrial scale misinformation in the face of so many deaths? pic.twitter.com/TBHJQcpDJy
— John O’Connell (@jdpoc) April 20, 2020
The one person has been identified.
Despite the @DHSCgovuk reply to my queries of ‘no comment’ (and that’s all she wrote), that person is a contracted Government employee temporarily assigned to this department.
— John O’Connell (@jdpoc) April 20, 2020
It appears that the UK government’s, apparently inept attempts to utilize bots to push forward its narrative are continuous, and not simply isolated cases.
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Perhaps the zio shills have temporarily relocated to London. Sure seems that way.
The British media will not run with this story because it would highlight to the public how easily it is to sway the mindset of a nation. When you consider that all the UK media are owned by a tiny few all sharing the same political views then you can understand why the will brush this under the carpet ASAP.
The BBC most certainly will not run with it as they would be open to the accusation that they have let Israeli sympathetic views saturate their output for nearly a decade now. They will allow the odd non supportive Israeli view or comment occassionally but that has to be followed with anti-semetic accusations and a never ending holocaust survivor story.
The Jewish population of the UK is 0.4% Strangly at the BBC they make of 40% of the senior staff positions of producers and editors (that’s 100 times higher than statisically can be excused) but strangely not throughout the corporation as a whole they are very heavily clustered in the News department of the BBC. To get anywhere in the BBC news division nowadays you have to be Jewish or have a Jewish husband/wife/partner. Anyone in doubt can google it however if they raise the subject on boards etc an army of little bots appear with the usual smearing tactic.