operetingushisutemu@feddit.de to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoWhat have you witnessed or seen that would sound like a conspiracy theory if someone else told you?message-squaremessage-square190fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down17
arrow-up1231arrow-down1message-squareWhat have you witnessed or seen that would sound like a conspiracy theory if someone else told you?operetingushisutemu@feddit.de to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square190fedilink
minus-squarerain459@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up59arrow-down1·1 year agoThere is a huge amount of fake and bot accounts on social medias, probably as much as the population of many cities, made and used to manipulate the public opinion.
minus-squaresnowe@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down2·1 year agoThat’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s been studied and shown true over and over. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-020-0340-4 https://medium.com/@robhat/an-analysis-of-propaganda-bots-on-twitter-7b7ec57256ae https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-media-and-democracy/bots-and-computational-propaganda-automation-for-communication-and-control/A15EE25C278B442EF00199AA660BFADD https://headlineusa.com/china-bots-boost-propaganda/ https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/computational-propaganda/
minus-squarenjm1314@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah man that’s the point of this thread. The idea is it’s things that aren’t conspiracy theories. They just sound like them.
There is a huge amount of fake and bot accounts on social medias, probably as much as the population of many cities, made and used to manipulate the public opinion.
That’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s been studied and shown true over and over.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-020-0340-4
https://medium.com/@robhat/an-analysis-of-propaganda-bots-on-twitter-7b7ec57256ae
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-media-and-democracy/bots-and-computational-propaganda-automation-for-communication-and-control/A15EE25C278B442EF00199AA660BFADD
https://headlineusa.com/china-bots-boost-propaganda/
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/computational-propaganda/
Yeah man that’s the point of this thread. The idea is it’s things that aren’t conspiracy theories. They just sound like them.
Right
Correct
So true
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