Sunlit7 you are making a great point, but actually, saving the distances is exactly the same. In Twitter or Facebook, how many bots account do you need to create a great scam, just look at my post about Twitter. Is the same, is an intrinsec problem of any society. Where there is a system, there are loopholes and exploits. Is that aggravant to the point that a whole democracy could crummble on that. Just take an army of bots to create a trending topic on Twitter, pay a couple big media outlets and you can change the mass opinion.
It will be nice to make a dissertation on the risks of AI and automatization for Democracy.
Thanks for the links and your meaningful contribution to this post.