Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment

The "Organization" field is provided by the submitter themselves. It is not based on an IP (geo)location feed. I have deduced this based on a comment where the organization field is "federal police" in lower case [1].

There are a total of 19 comments with the same content. The claim that they were submitted by a botnet is easily dismissable. Especially given the fact that a "botnet"/troll farm would likely use different IP addresses, names, organizations and comment content ...

What remains open is whether these 19 commenters were instructed to submit these comments or if they did so on their own. If they did do it on their own, was it in their free time? If so, is it okay to do so under their employers name?

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-sa...

Is there a source that isn't a gif on reddit?

Reminds me of the time the EU Commission itself was caught violating laws in the course of their pro-Chat Control ad campaign,

https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-files-complaint-against-eu-commissio... ("noyb files complaint against EU Commission over targeted chat control ads")

> "In September 2023, the Commission used unlawful micro-targeting on Twitter (X) to promote its heavily criticized chat control regulation... This move both undermined the established democratic procedures between EU institutions and violated the EU GDPR."

The proof in the post is pretty dubious.

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Another thing that will not be properly investigated, as usual.

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