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Most of social media is PR companies running bot farms, this has been the case for many years. Especially around African elections (well studied) or large socia
by godmode2019 4y ago
Most of social media is PR companies running bot farms, this has been the case for many years. Especially around African elections (well studied) or large social issues ( Johnny deep court case )
My country is notability bad they close the comment section so real accounts can't out comment the bot accounts, our government has social media influence programmers running this, people I know. ( small country )
They use gpt 2 to generate around 100 curated comments for each news article, You can typically tell by going into their account and seeing when they joined and friend count ect. However recently they started hiring normal people to comment.
This has been the PR industry for at least 4 years.
- jungle2jungle 4y agoYou have provided no evidence.
- godmode2019 4y agohttps://www.skynettoday.com/overviews/misinfo https://www.skynettoday.com/overviews/misinfo "There has been a 150% increase in countries using organised social media manipulation campaigns over the last two years." [University of Oxford] https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/entertainment/amber-heard-twitter-support-is-largely-from-fake-and-inauthentic-accounts/ https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/entertainment/amber-heard-... "A new survey has proved a large number of Amber Heard's Twitter support is coming from "fake" accounts." https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/large-percentage-of-amber-heard-twitter-support-is-from-fake-accounts/news-story/e40a331810becf515a6e1de7bf3d0474 https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/large-p... "Nearly 11 per cent of all Twitter accounts participating in discourse surrounding Johnny Depp's defamation trial" https://democracyinafrica.org/cambridge-analytica-africa-know/ https://democracyinafrica.org/cambridge-analytica-africa-kno... https://m.dw.com/en/dictators-in-africa-using-social-media-to-cling-to-power/a-60360543 https://m.dw.com/en/dictators-in-africa-using-social-media-t...