Quite marginal? Here is a video compilation of just cases where MSNBC promoted just the Hamilton 68 dashboard, which supposedly tracked "Russian linked" bot an

Quite marginal? Here is a video compilation of just cases where MSNBC promoted just the Hamilton 68 dashboard, which supposedly tracked "Russian linked" bot and troll activity. It's 11 minutes of clips: https://www.racket.news/p/eleven-minutes-of-media-falsehoods https://www.racket.news/p/eleven-minutes-of-media-falsehoods These people couldn't stop talking about Russian bots. Listen for yourself and you'll see the claim is made regularly. Later it was discovered that these hundreds of accounts were all ordinary westerners, and the Hamilton 68 people admitted that they'd never really had a reason to think they were Russian. That's just one TV channel, referring to one source of misinformation! There are far far more such clips available. This sort of thing was totally normal outside the media too. Look at how many papers have come from academics writing about this supposed widespread problem: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22social+bots%22+OR+%22twitter+bots%22&btnG=&oq=%22social+bots%22 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22s... Over 14,000 papers on bots that don't really exist! And that's just a tiny fraction of the misinformation pumped into society regularly. Again, if Hinton actually cared about misinformation, he'd have cared about that. He doesn't. Like everyone else claiming to care, he's simply a bitter partisan, hence his comment about Biden at the end of the interview. My point is that these claims all revolved around the idea that the internet was being flooded with bots that spoke and thought just like Americans, so similarly that people couldn't tell they weren't human and would even be highly persuaded by them. Yet the tech to do that didn't exist at the time. People who observed this fact were of course attacked as spreading misinformation themselves, which is why the whole concept is just a joke idea.