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Your comment is written in a way that implies that this happens. Do you have evidence to back that up? Not evidence that they take down suspected state-sponsore
by tyre 7y ago
Your comment is written in a way that implies that this happens. Do you have evidence to back that up? Not evidence that they take down suspected state-sponsored brigading, but that they were wrong?
- ambicapter 7y ago> You comment is written in a way that implies that this happens. I think his comment his written to imply that it is possible for this to happen. In which case, it does not require supporting evidence beyond the logical consistency of itself, which is sound, I believe.
- syrrim 7y agobusterarm is almost certainly referring to chinese "bots".
- busterarm 7y agoThat's also an interesting phenomenon. There are a large number of Chinese citizens on the internet who will shout down with comments any message counter to the party line there. They are real people, aren't they?
- mbesto 7y agoThis dilemma right here is exactly why modern communication platforms are so dangerous.
- erichocean 7y ago> dangerous to who?
- Clubber 7y ago>dangerous ... to who? The entrenched who already have a mass information platform available to them (news).
- JaRail 7y agoReal people with real friends and families in mainland China, yes.
- busterarm 7y agoWired ran an article demonstrating that this happened. https://www.wired.com/story/how-americans-wound-up-on-twitters-list-of-russian-bots/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-americans-wound-up-on-twitte... I shouldn't have to google for someone as politically active... ...you're literally working to elect someone president.
- kick 7y agoThat article is surprisingly poor for Wired. Both Hirschfeld and Osborne first logged in to their accounts in February 2011, well before the first known IRA activity in 2013. WIRED’s analysis found at least 63 accounts created between 2009 and 2013 included in the list provided to Congress. It's reasonably well known to anyone who's used the site that old accounts are fairly frequently hijacked by others, so this doesn't invalidate Twitter's claim.
- Faark 7y agoThere was a talk [0] at Chaos Communication Congress 2 years ago about the early "political bots hype". Sadly in german and I'm not sure how great the provided translation is. It e.g. calls out "more than 50 tweets per day" being used as criteria to identify bots and concludes with more/better research is needed. Would love to hear an updated version or something alike, if someone has recommendations. [0] https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_filterblasen#l=eng&t=1890 https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9268-social_bots_fake_news_und_f...
- throwaway122378 7y agohttps://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/twitter-world-leaders-break-rules/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/15/twitter-world-leaders-brea...