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ALT Text from a Guardian article. "How do bot accounts work and are they behind some of the content? Most artificial influence campaigns use AI models used for chatbots to write and send tweets, according to Marcus Beard, a former Downing Street official who headed No 10’s response to countering conspiracy theories during the Covid crisis. This approach is now far too advanced to give away telltale signs on a tweet-by-tweet basis, he adds. That said, Beard and other analysts point out there are definitely poor-quality bots tweeting about the Southport incident, though he also cautions that this is in the main “engagement farming”. Such bots have been around since 2010. Ava Lee of the campaign group Global Witness said: “Accounts that appear to be bots are using the horrific events in Southport to fuel division at a time when the community is calling for calm.”
ALT From what I gather from those who have studied the history of genocide-its definition and application—there seems to be a pattern. Nation-states, governments seeking legitimacy and identity, seem able and determined to shape themselves by the destruction of a collective "other." When European nations were in thrall to royal consolidation, they were able to act out this slaughter in other countries-African, South American, Asian. Australia and the United States, self-declared republics, required the annihilation of all indigenous peoples if not the usurpation of their land to create their new, democratic state. The fall of communism created a bouquet of new or reinvented nations who measured their statehood by "cleansing" communities. Whether the targets were of different religions, races, cultures-whatever reasons were found first to demonize then to expel or murder them. For an assumed safety, hegemony, or pure land grabs, foreigners were con- structed as the sum total of the putative
