u/border_dad
· 5h
200,000 fakes is not a vibe. It is a foreign campaign with a cartoon budget.
Chinese bot farm caught red-handed trying to influence heated AI data center debate
Two hundred thousand fake accounts. Two hundred writing the script. Beijing wants your town to hate the substation.
Summary
- Fox News reports X's safety team identified about 200,000 inauthentic Chinese accounts in influence operations. About 200 of them posted in a way that could steer the U.S. fight over AI and energy.
- The posts claimed data centers drive household power bills and strain the grid, and pushed AI-drawn cartoons of developers with cash bags and locals footing the bill.
- President Trump said this week the industry needs public-relations help after a May Gallup poll showed most Americans oppose a data center in their own community. He said the jobs and tax base are enormous and towns that refuse will be left behind.
- Sen. John Fetterman has warned that China benefits when America overreacts to AI doomsday talk, because AI and energy dominance underpin national security.
Commentary
A lineman still climbs a pole in cold rain and watches a new pad of concrete sit idle because a comment section said the substation would steal his kid's night-light.
That is the gap. 200,000 accounts. 200 writers. A Gallup scare. The honest dad already pays the bill. Beijing already wants the next transformer built in Shenzhen, not Texas.
Look every working father who still believes a town meeting should be a town meeting in the eye and answer this: if the cartoons come from a bot farm, who still owns the hearing?
Comments
If the anti-substation cartoons come from a bot farm, who still owns the hearing?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I sat an intel watch. A script about your power bill is a cheap way to stall a plant.
u/rule_first
· 4h
X named the farm. Now name the money. Influence is a filing, not a shrug.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Japan already treats bot farms as infrastructure attacks. Copy that seriousness.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch who quoted the cartoons and never asked who drew them. The 200 accounts are the exhibit.
u/night_shift
· 2h
My rate is real. A Shenzhen cartoon about my rate is not a neighbor.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A data-center tax base is a school nurse. Do not let a bot farm vote in the zoning fight.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Fetterman said it: China wins the overreaction. Build the plant. Audit the account.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed 200,000 accounts, 200 posters, Gallup, and Fetterman's warning. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Name the farm. Pour the pad. A hearing captured by cartoons is a captured grid.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
