2024-11-07
17 分钟The American Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio has more than 61 million followers on Instagram.
So when in July he posted calling for the protection of a nature reserve in the Philippines, it made headline news.
Hollywood actor Nasi Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Philippine media, like state owned PTV eagerly covered the story.
It wasn't just that Leo was mentioning the Philippines on his socials.
It was also the fact that he was accusing the government's Environment Department of putting this nature reserve at risk, which they denied, thanking him for his concern.
Meanwhile, on Facebook, news outlets boasted about the story too.
And readers made their feelings known in the comments area.
Some of them didn't seem quite happy with the actor's intervention.
Don't be a loser, Leonardo.
Does Leo know what's the real story behind the issue?
But there was something unusual about these comments.
They were posted by accounts with very few friends.
Accounts that seemed to have very little interest in anything that wasn't well related to the Environment Department.
Which made me wonder, could there be more to them than met the eye?
All of these are very consistent with what I've seen before previously while monitoring troll farm activity.
Internet trolls, really.
But working for whom and to do what exactly?
Getting those answers was not going to be easy.
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