Coordinated inauthentic behavior
Multiple accounts working together to post highly consistent content while pretending to be unrelated ordinary people.
Definition
AI makes 'exactly 50 per batch, tone like a passerby' cheap. To identify it, look for whether labels, sentence patterns, and timing are abnormally uniform.
It is a mechanism of influence operations, not a separate harm category.
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- Not fans spontaneously reposting.
- Not having already swayed public opinion.
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The Kenya case was rated Tier 1: did not reach real users.