Our problem is not the hijab, the government of the Islamic Republic is corrupt and must go, we don't want reforms, we want regime cha- whoops wrong tweet (twitter.com)

submitted 2 years ago by AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Context: The CIA intern picked the wrong tweet to unleash the bot farm on. It's totally natural to talk about Iran in some tweet about El Salvador.

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[-] old_goat@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

You'd think that they'd put a different body in charge of different theaters of operation. Why are they trying to do imperialism on a budget?

[-] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Cost cutting everywhere they possibly can, of course.

[-] Zizek@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

Video of it here, since they already began to delete: https://twitter.com/suspendedrobot/status/1599773919933739008

[-] ComradeGuts@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

Wow that's a shitload of tweets lol. Pretty crazy.

It's also so goddamn stupid how they all post the exact same thing. Like come on, they could easily use AI to come up with more varied posts. Are they that lazy? Or incompetent?

[-] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I noticed they did the same copy/paste shit with Cuba Libre stuff.

It's low effort because we're the only ones who care to notice.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

This is exactly the same quantity and style of post as occurred during their attempt to make something happen in Cuba. It is the same group.

[-] iie@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

are you aware of any screencaps of that?

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I wonder if this got triggered by "10,000 soldados irán en San Salvador". No intern mistake, just a homonym.

That would be the funniest case and so I will it in my mind to be true.

[-] buh@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

There’s gonna be a workshop on regex in Langley this weekend

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

and iran, iran so far a wayyyyyyyyy

iran, i couldn't get awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

iran-all-night-and-da-ay

[-] replaceable@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~That shouldnt be possible, this mistake can only be made by humans, to computers these are completely different words~~

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Whomst among us has never forgotten to ensure that a query is case sensitive?

[-] replaceable@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~Its not case sensitivity a and á are just different letters to the computer~~

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

depending on how you do string comparisons they can be. See Java's Collator class.

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

That would be a great point, if "they will go" and "Iran" weren't both spelled with an á in Spanish.

They are exactly the same spelling.

[-] replaceable@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I had no idea, i guess i will take the L then

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

Didn't Elon say he was going to get rid of bots on twitter?

[-] chickentendrils@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not CIA bots, that's for damn sure.

There's always the possibility that his purchase was subsidized to do exactly this kind of shit with less oversight. It kind of makes sense when you consider the stuff he was whining about to get out of the deal, just him projecting onto the existing platform what the CIA offering him a bailout was saying. Do we know where Elon gets his drugs?

The ability to generate accounts with backdated history and registration dates even. Just bake the CIA microservice right into the platform, why not? Probably not really that intimate a relationship, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.