Mexican Cyber-Mercenaries

Medium ^

[ameribbean expat]

Escorcia explains that coordinating tens of thousands of bots involves the hiring of dozens of operators — who program the accounts and relaunch discussion topics — at a high level of sophistication. In other words, these methods can’t be done by just anyone.

“All the political parties use them, the PRI especially; The PAN with (Rafael) Moreno Valle, and I’ve even detected that Ricardo Monreal (from Morena) used them,” he says.

[bgill]

Probably the same bots that call my house all day long. No, I don’t answer.