I live a few miles from Dearborn, and my nearby MAGA relatives are putting in overtime sharing all this slop because they have been whipped up into a frenzy about da scary Mooslems for decades.
I don't have an issue with accounts that declare themselves as bots, I like that Lemmy has this as a feature. More social media platforms should do this. It's that there are, like you said, bad actors that aim to deceive.
Honestly I'm on the fence on if this account is a bot or a person. The timestamps between post and comment are plausible, but that could be manufactured delay. The one thing I'm sure of is the account is shilling this website that it links to 99% of the time, and if you look around in the site, is a bizarre collection of news articles, blatant clickbait (especially in the Health section), ads for scholarships (??) and song lyrics and "meanings" which are 100% AI generated.
The website appears to have very few named authors, which is also weird. Most of the content just reeks of AI though.
I've seen accounts like these follow the exact same playbook when I used to browse reddit. Trying to drive up traffic and clicks for that ad money. This one is definitely aiming to deceive.
Some examples:
A sizable chunk of this website are "articles" similar to this.
You're already paying for premium. You shouldn't have to listen to ads.
Edit: in case anyone is wondering, yes, the account I am replying to is a bot that in a few months time will likely start promoting the stuff it's already promoing on its profile (which is a website that advertises via bots) or it will advertise a product that paid for this bot to do deceptive marketing.
Yup. ICE will look at a legally binding document and say that it's fake and there's nothing you can do about it. Happened to my coworker who was held in one of their concentration camps for five months.
"quiet" seems to be the buzzword of the now for 99% of journalists. It's really annoying.