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Political manipulation is a problem, but I don't think it's nearly as profitable as pushing scams and gambling.
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You'd be surprised as how there's individuals and organizations willing to pay a lot of money to do political manipulation / influencing.
> ... and organizations willing to pay a lot of money to do political manipulation / influencing.

Like what, parties campaigning?

We're talking about foreign influence here. All recent US and German elections reeked of Russian dark money, then there was the entire Cambridge Analytica mess and before that it was Brexit.
more like it would be from the nation state level. for example, RU pushing these lil psyop bots to get Trump elected and/or grow the divide in between Ds and Rs.
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