In the last few hours, a complaint went viral that points to a digital maneuver aimed at inflating the presence of President Javier Milei on social networks. The warning signal was triggered by the @El_Prensero account, which published a forceful message about the irregular activity that it detected when analyzing the comments and replications of the president’s publications.
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The phrase revived a discussion that had already been growing: the presence of fake users, many of them linked to active networks in India, who reproduce Milei’s tweets in a coordinated manner. The profiles share similar patterns—generic photos, little real activity, identical publication schedules—and appear interacting en bloc as soon as the president writes something, generating a multiplier effect that does not correspond to their level of organic support.
The complaint spread quickly because it coincides with a phenomenon that different analysts have been observing for months: the presence of accounts that seek to install the idea of strong international support for Milei when, in reality, they are profiles created to manipulate the conversation. The volume of retweets and responses coming from these accounts generates the feeling that each message from the president automatically becomes a trend, even when the participation of real users is noticeably lower.
The episode reopens questions about the transparency of the digital ecosystem. The use of botnets from countries like India is a common practice in political and commercial amplification campaigns around the world, but their massive participation in official tweets raises concerns about the authenticity of the public conversation. In Argentina, where politics is discussed both on the street and on the screen, the difference between genuine support and artificial noise ends up shaping perceptions, debates and social climates.
