Not exactly what I’m talking about. There have always been bots and there always will be. I’m meaning a much larger facade that imitates an entire community. 

Some have said it here and they are partially right I think, that this is happening now actually, it’s just got very loosely defined edges and is prevalent on all major social media platforms. I think governments are doing this all over the world. Controlling populations has literally *always* been their very mode of existence. Just read the leaked reports from the CIA and other agencies and you’ll see that it’s not even obscured or excused, it’s just openly discussed. They literally see the people as something to be manipulated, controlled, and milked for money. Discussions of rights or freedoms or moral restraint aren’t even part of the discussion, it’s about *effectiveness,* plain and simple.