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You’ll see the same thing with Google. I’ve found quite a few Google shills on here

Well yes, they all have huge com departments with people creating accounts and maintaining it for years to get organic reputations.

We stopped trusting TV and starting trusting each other more. So they started disguising as us. It's the natural evolution.

Agree, hard to distinguish people from ads these days

There are a lot of 'useful idiots' too---people doing it for free without any direction.