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If you look at these accounts, many are 1+ years old. Calling them sock puppets is confirmation bias to avoid reading the article.
by bduerst 7y ago
If you look at these accounts, many are 1+ years old. Calling them sock puppets is confirmation bias to avoid reading the article.
- DuskStar 7y agoAge is not a good determination of sockpuppetness, at least with competent opponents. Past activity might be, since that at least costs something, while age just costs prep time.
- bduerst 7y agoOkay, did you look at the age and the comment activity of these accounts? Because they're not sockpuppets accounts. You're making a textbook No True Scotsman.
- DuskStar 7y agoI don't doubt that many of the accounts screenshotted in the article linked are actual, active accounts on /r/The_Donald. I doubt that you can usefully distinguish real accounts from fake ones for the purposes of identifying false flag attacks in other subreddits.