> People you interact with online almost certainly aren't bots or paid.

Not all of them, and I'm not saying they target me. I noticed it more in popular engagement sinks - comments on popular instagram videos, replies on trending topics on Twitter, the main subs on Reddit.

There absolutely are engagement farms doing this for multiple reasons, and it at least seemed to me that most of the interactions in those places were not genuine.

Certainly aren't bots is dubious, although if there's actual interactions it's likely they aren't bots.

Paid, lmao I wish. Nobody gets paid to repeat propaganda, generally.