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I would be very cautious about this article; the botometer tool used to do the classifications is known to be problematic and the study is not available for dis
by pmyteh 7y ago
I would be very cautious about this article; the botometer tool used to do the classifications is known to be problematic and the study is not available for dissection.
I used to work with people at Oxford University who studied this stuff, and it teaches you to be careful. See this thread by a former colleague for some reasons for scepticism: https://twitter.com/_FelixSimon_/status/1230862078950420480 https://twitter.com/_FelixSimon_/status/1230862078950420480
- golemiprague 7y agoLet's not tread too carefully, the Guardian is a lefty newspaper and everything there comes to support a certain point of view. That's why they will take some obscure claims about bots, of course they are climate change denying bots, and will make it into a headline.