▲ 53 ▼ At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion (medium.com) submitted 2 years ago by haxor@derp.foo [M, B] to c/hackernews@derp.foo 5 comments fedilink hide all child comments There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 points 2 years ago (2 children) 15% is massive permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] CannedTuna@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) Top comment from the Hacker News discussion: The title is false. It seems to derive from the following paragraph: “The results were alarming, with 15% of the top 100 subreddits found to have content that was likely posted by bots or corporate trolls, specifically aimed at promoting certain companies or organizations.” It's not 15% of content. Nowhere even close. It's 15% of top subreddits that might contain just a single post considered "likely" (no actual verification) to be from what they call a corporate "troll". In other words, it's a completely meaningless statistic. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Xin_shill@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago Just what a corpo shill would post permalink fedilink source parent [–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago So it's exactly what everyone thought: greater than zero. permalink fedilink source parent [–] spudwart@spudwart.com 6 points 2 years ago and that's the Low-ball estimate. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CannedTuna@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) Top comment from the Hacker News discussion: The title is false. It seems to derive from the following paragraph: “The results were alarming, with 15% of the top 100 subreddits found to have content that was likely posted by bots or corporate trolls, specifically aimed at promoting certain companies or organizations.” It's not 15% of content. Nowhere even close. It's 15% of top subreddits that might contain just a single post considered "likely" (no actual verification) to be from what they call a corporate "troll". In other words, it's a completely meaningless statistic. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Xin_shill@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago Just what a corpo shill would post permalink fedilink source parent [–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago So it's exactly what everyone thought: greater than zero. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Xin_shill@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago Just what a corpo shill would post permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago So it's exactly what everyone thought: greater than zero. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 6 points 2 years ago and that's the Low-ball estimate. permalink fedilink source parent
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