Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
RightEdofer@lemmy.ca 5 days agoYes, but that’s like saying cutting trees is the same game when it went from handsaws to today’s harvesters. Technically they do the same thing, but the scale and efficiency is a world apart.
scarabic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Oh I completely agree. My point is that just because it was driven by bots doesn’t mean it was fake and therefore we can ignore it (I believe some people have that perception when they hear that some online uproar was driven by bots).