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Careful: It's not clear if the 9 to 15% number covers bots overall or only the relevant subgroup for disinformation campaigns. Though I suppose it's more likely
by archi42 7y ago
Careful: It's not clear if the 9 to 15% number covers bots overall or only the relevant subgroup for disinformation campaigns. Though I suppose it's more likely to plainly cover ALL bots.
Now lets wildly assume 6 to 10 %-points of these are actually not disguised as humans and are not setup with the intent to mislead (e.g. think automatic service status tweets), then the average "bot disguised as genuine human"-rate for any topic would be below the 10% range - which in turn makes the 25% much more bleak.
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- kick 7y agoThere are like three dozen twitter bots that automatically repost HN posts, and there are like ten thousand twitter bots that automatically repost popular reddit posts. A single post getting to the front page of both will get you a hundred thousand tweets in ten minutes. They don't seem to have linked the study, so I can't check if they controlled for that, but it's such a common use case that I really hope they did.