probably more than half of all Twitter accounts are bots :)
edit: apparently this too is a pursuit of academic study. estimated at 15%:
https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM17/paper/view/1558...
Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
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#12Bot Sentinel uses machine learning to find bots. https://botsentinel.com/
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#14What about the account pushing to keep america closed? Are half of those bots as well? Or was this "study" done with a particular agenda in mind?
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#15Anytime something doesn't fit the narrative we're all supposed to submit to: bots.
So you believe there are conspirators who manipulate the media to push a certain narrative on the public, but you do not believe there are conspirators who manipulate social media to push a narrative?
I saw something recently that was supposed to be a tearjerking story about a doctor who is just drained by all the crazy conspiracy theorists that are persecuting him. But the whole story was a conspiracy theory about Facebook and Google creating viral conspiracy theories, with no particular motivation or mechanism. This seems to me like a whole genre, it just stood out because of the anti-conspiracy theory fillip.
I can hardly think of anything I've read in a long time that attacks conspiracy theories, specific ones or in general, without promoting an unbelievable one as an alternative. Or demanding one by implication.
If you absolutely are going to reject the idea of a conspiracy being responsible for general insanity, it seems like maybe we should be looking for an environmental factor, analogous to leaded gasoline.
Everybody has been worrying about cell phones causing cancer, maybe the radiation just makes people crazy instead? Or maybe there is a virus that unlike Covid doesn't cause lung problems that people notice?
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#16Headline is strange. The article itself says something similar but not the same:
> But in a new study, the researchers have found that bots may account for between 45 and 60% of Twitter accounts discussing covid-19.“
Edit: this was more interesting:
> not only were bots gaining traction and accumulating followers, but they accounted for 82% of the top 50 and 62% of the top 1,000 influential retweeters
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#17Russia's view on C19 changed from disbelief to acceptance in April I think? So either you will see this in the data, or you'll see them playing both sides. So where are the bots to close America? The study isn't even released yet. So who knows what they may have made up yet with their 'machine- learning'. There obviously is a lot of misinformation from nation states on Twitter and Reddit and HN. This press release is…
"where are the bots to close America?"
On FB, I recently saw a meme along the lines of "a couple weeks of eating their own cooking and white people are rioting".
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#18Russia's view on C19 changed from disbelief to acceptance in April I think? So either you will see this in the data, or you'll see them playing both sides. So where are the bots to close America? The study isn't even released yet. So who knows what they may have made up yet with their 'machine- learning'. There obviously is a lot of misinformation from nation states on Twitter and Reddit and HN. This press release is…
>So where are the bots to close America?
Bot disinformation campaigns like this tend to be fuelled by US adversaries and thus usually push into directions that are harmful or embarassing for the US, so there isn't much incentive to advocate for keeping the containment measures going, because that's essentially the sensible decision backed by health experts at this point.
All the spam around covid, which you can even see if you just browse twitter yourself is mostly miracle cures, reopening the US, Bill Gates conspiracy theory stuff and so on.
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#19In every crime, look the one who had a solid reason to commit it. Russia and China support literally any freaks, like anti-vaxxers, just to make US focused on its internal problems.
Notice, how well-organized the reopen movement, and how sporadic and unprepared anti-reopen protests, mostly organized by small groups of medical workers.
Re: Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots
#20Russia's view on C19 changed from disbelief to acceptance in April I think? So either you will see this in the data, or you'll see them playing both sides. So where are the bots to close America? The study isn't even released yet. So who knows what they may have made up yet with their 'machine- learning'. There obviously is a lot of misinformation from nation states on Twitter and Reddit and HN. This press release is…
"where are the bots to close America?" On FB, I recently saw a meme along the lines of "a couple weeks of eating their own cooking and white people are rioting".
Are you saying that's posted by a bot?