Exactly my thoughts. Scrape, analyze, manipulate rinse and repeat.
Not only would one be able to manipulate a group but one would be able to guard against said group once you've lost control of this group.
I believe a good example of this may be France at the moment. If the government or bad actors are scraping and analyzing data in order to predict movement or popularity the movement may have or even how fast the movement is garnering support the bad actors can use the data to extinguish the movement.
Musks efforts may be directed at starving the system of the information they need to act.
Exactly my thoughts. Scrape, analyze, manipulate rinse and repeat.
Not only would one be able to manipulate a group but one would be able to guard against said group once you've lost control of this group.
I believe a good example of this may be France at the moment. If the government or bad actors are scraping and analyzing data in order to predict movement or popularity the movement may have or even how fast the movement is garnering support the bad actors can use the data to extinguish the movement.
Musks efforts may be directed at starving the system of the information they need to act.