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Any source for this? Not disputing it, but would like to see some evidence.
by andrewbinstock 9y ago
Any source for this? Not disputing it, but would like to see some evidence.
- jandrese 9y agoWasn't there a mass bot purge a couple of weeks ago immediately followed by complaints that Twitter was silencing important conservative voices because they're part of the Deep State?
- bdcravens 9y agoI believe the complaint was reduced follower counts reduced credibility of some real accounts
- ATsch 9y agothe 34c3 talk "social bots, fake news and filterbubbles" comes to mind (unfortunately originally in German) The tl;dw of this is that when defining "bots", most researchers used very misleading metrics e.g. ">20 tweets/day" and the worries and studies about "social bots" shaping discussion on twitter are generally not founded in reality. https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_filterblasen https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f...