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The findings are in a way depressing. Only the black bots with many followers cohort was any effective, probably due to intimidation effect on the offender.
by varjag 10y ago
The findings are in a way depressing. Only the black bots with many followers cohort was any effective, probably due to intimidation effect on the offender.
- darkFunction 10y agoDid you read the same article?
- mintplant 10y agoOther way around, only the "white" bots with high follower counts were effective.
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- inimino 10y agoYou misread the article. Only the white bots were effective. The black bots with many followers had a negative effect, but only on a subset of the users. Based on the effect sizes and without more data these finding don't look terribly robust anyway.
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