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When you cannot tell if your democratic voice reaches anyone real

I run a small political podcast and I just discovered that most of my downloads are from bot farms trying to manipulate the algorithm and I do not know if any real people actually listen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Artificial audience manipulation makes it impossible to distinguish genuine political influence from algorithmic illusion.

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