Tommy Dobczyk explains how phone farms—collections of smartphones running coordinated accounts—flood social media algorithms with fake engagement to make streams appear trending. Each device posts and comments on the same content, creating enough signal volume that platforms amplify it across their networks.
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Look, do you guys see these pictures of, of, of like just walls of phones? Battery, you know, uh, uh, banks. These are phone banks. All of them 100% programmed to just—
So once you've reposted, like, what he just— once you've said, put it in the comments, posted.
Echo is too much coming from yours. Oh, muted. I think I got it.
Yeah, I'm not seeing it up here anymore.
Okay, you safe?
And it doesn't look like you're sharing.
Everybody here? Okay, cool. So yeah, that, that, that level of social media helps over actors.
Get it posted, you guys. We all can do it. Your Facebook account and switching over to is gonna take like 20 minutes. So you're, you're the exception.
Okay. You guys are the exception because you're doing this. Are you guys seeing it?
I think to do 2 comments and reshare.
Yeah.
Okay.
And so that's just, that's just how you're able to get Get with about join. We're not, we're not expecting you to get 100 people to join. So it's not about if your friends join, it's about the algorithm recognize this podcast, this, this, this streaming event as an event, you know, look at, push out, share, share across the spectrum.
And what I wanna know what the benefit is of you for doing this.
