u/SerMumble ·
Reddit — r/investing
· March 01, 2026 at 20:35
· ⬆ 26 pts
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The post discusses the increasing presence of AI-powered bots on social media platforms like Reddit, YouTube, and Twitter, which are suspected of pushing specific financial agendas.
The author, u/SerMumble, hypothesizes that these bots are being used to manipulate market sentiment and drive traffic towards certain assets, such as international investments, mutual funds, and crypto.
Quality assessment: This is speculation and observation, not well-researched due diligence. It focuses on the mechanics of information dissemination rather than fundamental analysis of any specific asset.
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There are definitely some real users here and there but do other people also see a plague of bot accounts that speak weird and push unusual agendas?
Maybe I am overreacting but one account was fixated on pushing that 60 was mid life with AI generated explanation and imbedded links and immediately deleted itself after I questioned if it was an AI chatbot.
I've noticed other accounts that over push international investments, mutual funds, crypto, not just on reddit but youtube, twitter, etc.
Their main triggers appear to be parroting quotes, hallucinating math, excessive imbedded links, and reacting poorly to being called out.
It just seems obvious to me if there are a lot of bot accounts on subreddits for selling commodities and goods like computers and referral links, there probably are a lot of stock market bots trying to bump traffic for certain parts of the market as well.
Am I accidentally bullying people or do other users see these unusual accounts as well trying to push an agenda?