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Bluetus

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2. 800,000,000 accounts

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 09:36 PM

Wednesday

If Russian troll farms can manage that many accounts, imagine what they can do with AI.

We continue to march toward what seemed like an absurdity: an Internet that consists mostly of bot accounts trying to influence other bot accounts.

In the early days of the 'net, it was estimated that more than 50% of the traffic was porn and downloading of copyrighted music. Now we are now over 50% bot traffic.
https://thebestvpn.com/statistics/what-percent-of-internet-traffic-is-bots/

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