{"id":705364,"date":"2026-08-29T17:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=705364"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T21:39:56","slug":"x-busts-suspected-chinese-bot-farm-that-could-manipulate-legitimate-debate-over-americas-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=705364","title":{"rendered":"X Busts Suspected Chinese Bot Farm That Could &#8216;Manipulate Legitimate Debate&#8217; Over America&#8217;s AI Boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant X said on Thursday that it identified a bot farm of roughly 200,000 suspected Chinese accounts \u2013 200 of which were &#8220;posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.&#8221;\u00a0<strong>In short:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>the bots were amplifying pitchfork grievances Americans already hold against data centers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/x-busts-200000-account-chinese-bot-farm-waging-psychological-operation-against-americas\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/technology\/x-busts-200000-account-chinese-bot-farm-waging-psychological-operation-against-americas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Will they find ALL the ops before the mid-terms??<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media giant X said on Thursday that it identified a bot farm of roughly 200,000 suspected Chinese accounts \u2013 200 of which were &#8220;posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.&#8221;\u00a0In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=705364\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705366,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705364\/revisions\/705366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}