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Wow, a grand total of 75 user accounts, and $130 000 of ads. How is this anything but a drop in the ocean? If this is the extent of 'Coordinated inauthentic be
by rocqua 8y ago
Wow, a grand total of 75 user accounts, and $130 000 of ads.
How is this anything but a drop in the ocean? If this is the extent of 'Coordinated inauthentic behavior' I'm rather unimpressed with the capabilities of Russia.
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- tapoxi 8y ago790,000 followers
- mensetmanusman 8y agoWhat % of them do you think get feeds from these russian actors that make it to their main feed. FB has said they filter 99% of the 1000’s of posts happening that you could be following due to overload, so that would be a couple hundred people.
- richardknop 8y agoHow many of them are real? If most followers are fake then the impact was really minuscule if any.
- ardy42 8y ago> Wow, a grand total of 75 user accounts, and $130 000 of ads. > How is this anything but a drop in the ocean? It's the tip of the iceberg. You're ignoring second order effects. The people those accounts influence will influence others. Russian agents might have written the first few disinformation articles claiming the US Government created AIDS to attack blacks and gays [1], but once they got the ball rolling on that meme, others did the rest of the work to spread it for them. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_6dibpDfo
- rocqua 8y agoWould Russia really have so few influential accounts that a loss of 75 could hurt them? I don't doubt the effect 75 accounts could have. I do doubt the effect reducing Russian inventory of fake accounts by 75 could have.