Sock puppet

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A person or online persona whose actions are controlled by somebody else.

A sock puppet, on the Internet, is a fake account made to amplify a user's reach to be able to influence discussions on a wider scale. It can entail mostly copy pasted content by a human operator or automated bot activity that does this - AI being increasingly used in the area in the 2020s. Some suspect that bot traffic already "may outpace human-generated content entirely".[1]

Alternatively, it can refer to a puppet leader.

Persona Management

Persona management entails the use of software by which to facilitate the use of multiple fake online personas, ie sockpuppets", generally for the use of propaganda, disinformation, or as a surveillance method by which to discover details of a human target via social interactions.[2][3][4]


 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:Not All Propaganda is EqualArticle30 May 2012Barrett Brown
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