The writer’s assessment of who is behind the bots is delusional. > “Is this someone who is well-intentioned but perhaps has a lot of anxiety about Covid, and this is a way for them to act out those anxieties?” he asked. “Or is this something more nefarious where someone thinks creating accounts like this is a way to point at them and say: ‘Look how crazy the liberals are’?” Either he is avoiding calling it a government psy‐op, or that thought didn’t even cross his mind.