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It sounds like you reject their methodology, which is fine, but that doesn't mean they were wrong, just that they are failing to prove it. As far as I can tell
by hobs 5y ago
It sounds like you reject their methodology, which is fine, but that doesn't mean they were wrong, just that they are failing to prove it.
As far as I can tell the reason why many people on twitter thought there was a massive russian bot problem is because they(I) saw the massive influx of political bots and shills with the rise of the election and could clearly tell someone had their finger on the scale.
Russia seemed the most obvious culprit given various signals coming out ahead of the election (and after it) eg https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers-appear-to-show-putins-plot-to-put-trump-in-white-house https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/15/kremlin-papers...
- mike_hearn 5y agoIf their methodology is wrong then there is no support for their hypothesis, meaning we accept the null hypothesis (that there's nothing there). Rejection of what they're doing isn't some personal quirk of mine, by the way. Their methodology is entirely invalid. It should be rejected by anyone because it can't tell us anything true about the world.