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I don't think this is good evidence for this, there was a lot of people vociferously and quite publicly concerned about Cracker Barrel. This bot excuse seems mo

I don't think this is good evidence for this, there was a lot of people vociferously and quite publicly concerned about Cracker Barrel. This bot excuse seems more like a ploy to downplay things.

j_maffe 1y ago
Why don't you think it's good evidence? Did you even read the report?
- Simulacra 1y ago
  Hi, accusing someone and asking if they even read the report is actually against the rules. Go ahead check it out.
smt88 1y ago
"A lot of people" meaning bots. No real-life person thought the logo was offensive before or that the logo became woke. It never passed the smell test.
- Thorrez 1y ago
  >Of course, that means 75% of those posts were from people. PeakMetrics notes that the earliest posts expressing dismay and frustration at Cracker Barrel’s decision to update its logo came from human-run accounts. Once the bot networks started to pick up on the trend, though, they blew the whole thing up. “Authentic voices articulated cultural dissatisfaction, which bots then amplified,” the report said. >PeakMetrics didn’t attribute the bot megaphone to any specific organization or state actor. Rather, it found, “The initiators are ideological activist accounts with prior culture-war posting histories, supported by botnets.”
- entelechy0 1y ago
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skippyboxedhero 1y ago
The people who complain about bots never seem to identify bots posting things that they agree with. "the bots" is the new false consciousness, it is a deliberate attempt to avoid engaging
- its-summertime 1y ago
  Or its easier to talk about pro party X bots, in a space that is pro party Y? and harder to talk about pro party Y bots in a space that is pro party Y.
- gdulli 1y ago
  I believe that black lives matter, but also thought it made a lot of sense that the movement and branding of it could have been bot-driven to engineer a culture war.
greenchair 1y ago
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- carefulfungi 1y ago
  Our next big plan is to insult the measles into submission.
- mapontosevenths 1y ago
  Kind of sounds the the ad hominum is coming from inside the house.
add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
I think the implication is that the bots bootstrapped the drama which created real offense from real people. That's why the bots are effective, because the audience is predictably easy to rile up once one of two sides is labeled as "woke".

I don't think this is good evidence for this, there was a lot of people vociferously and quite publicly concerned about Cracker Barrel. This bot excuse seems more like a ploy to downplay things.

j_maffe 1y ago

Why don't you think it's good evidence? Did you even read the report?

Simulacra 1y ago
Hi, accusing someone and asking if they even read the report is actually against the rules. Go ahead check it out.

smt88 1y ago

"A lot of people" meaning bots. No real-life person thought the logo was offensive before or that the logo became woke. It never passed the smell test.

Thorrez 1y ago
>Of course, that means 75% of those posts were from people. PeakMetrics notes that the earliest posts expressing dismay and frustration at Cracker Barrel’s decision to update its logo came from human-run accounts. Once the bot networks started to pick up on the trend, though, they blew the whole thing up. “Authentic voices articulated cultural dissatisfaction, which bots then amplified,” the report said. >PeakMetrics didn’t attribute the bot megaphone to any specific organization or state actor. Rather, it found, “The initiators are ideological activist accounts with prior culture-war posting histories, supported by botnets.”
entelechy0 1y ago
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skippyboxedhero 1y ago

The people who complain about bots never seem to identify bots posting things that they agree with. "the bots" is the new false consciousness, it is a deliberate attempt to avoid engaging

its-summertime 1y ago
Or its easier to talk about pro party X bots, in a space that is pro party Y? and harder to talk about pro party Y bots in a space that is pro party Y.
gdulli 1y ago
I believe that black lives matter, but also thought it made a lot of sense that the movement and branding of it could have been bot-driven to engineer a culture war.

greenchair 1y ago

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carefulfungi 1y ago
Our next big plan is to insult the measles into submission.
mapontosevenths 1y ago
Kind of sounds the the ad hominum is coming from inside the house.

add-sub-mul-div 1y ago

I think the implication is that the bots bootstrapped the drama which created real offense from real people. That's why the bots are effective, because the audience is predictably easy to rile up once one of two sides is labeled as "woke".