State Senator Paul Bettancourt almost certainly uses bots and sockpuppets to boost his social media

Most of his posts have right around 1 thousand comments. Many of them sycophants, with generic profiles, pictures that haven't been updated in years. You click to see who liked and reacted to the sycophantic comments and those people in turn seem fake.

Lots of people are doing this sort of thing these days, but Bettancourt seems to be one of the more egregious examples.