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I'm not necessarily saying that all of the farms are owned/run by the respective social media platforms, though here is an article that touches a bit of what I'm trying to say. Another instance that I can think of was [reddit tried an astroturf campaign to try and make folks less critical of the API changes reddit tried an astroturf campaign to try and make folks less critical about the API changes
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