I don’t think we know what the actual figure is because this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.
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EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I’d be surprised if it was only 15%
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
b_tr3e@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.
Yeah. It’s probably corporate trolls manipulating public opinion.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a corporate troll manipulating public opinion.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
A corporate troll manipulating the public opinion by claiming corporate trolls were manipulating public opinion, that is.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a corporate troll manipulating public opinion.
I can only imagine being paid to post “company” opinions in internet forums (my company pretty much trains / pays us to keep their name out of internet forums…) It seems like it would just be… depressing, soul sucking, dreary, but not particularly fear inducing.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The headline also does not say the same thing that the post claims!
Headline: “15% of content” --> every 6th or 7th post or comment is a corporate troll
Article: “15% of subreddits contain” --> the vast majority of subreddits contain no troll content
Actual study: [file not found]
I also cannot find any Pew research study resembling the one described. The link is a 2017 report that doesn’t mention reddit.
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 weeks ago
15% of reddit is probably political, the other 85% are niche subreddits.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
You think corpo content is limited to political subs?
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 weeks ago
No, but just from my own personal experience, at least the corpo accounts on niche subreddits are open and upfront about it, and use it as an official customer service place. Whereas the political shills aren’t disclosing who they’re paid by.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
r/SFWimaginarywerewolves
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
r/SFWimaginarywerewolves
old.reddit.com/r/SubsIFellFor
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re welcome. :)
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
old.reddit.
+1
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The other 85% is non-corporate trolls trying to manipulate public opinion
northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Worse. State actors to suppress the truth and push their narrative.
traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Better. Cat people pushing their narrative making me want a cat.
modifier@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
You need a cat.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Litter boxes in classrooms confirmed!
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
The 2025 Superman movie hits it pretty hard with Lex Luthor’s “monkey bots.”
Considering that Blizzard had to mass-ban thousands of WoW gold farmers back in 2005, it should be no surprise whatsoever that all kinds of commercial and political “value” are being “farmed” in every major internet forum today, using every kind of cheap labor available.
How many of these trolls are now using AI to auto-generate their content?
EvilBit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like what a Warner Brothers AI bot would say… 🧐
J/k btw
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Nah. It’s 10% non corporate trolls. The rest is all bots.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m doing my part! (Jk, I got banned from Reddit for sharing a Luigi meme and mentioning that historically when things are this bad, people resort to violence)
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I honestly can’t stand Reddit since I can’t use Apollo anymore. The official app makes my feed like 40% adds and “suggestions,” so I just stopped using it. Pretty much the only way I see anything on Reddit now is the RDX app, and you can’t post or comment.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
I’ve never used a Reddit app - just the web interfaces, almost always old.reddit.com these days. I see more like 4% advertisement, but it does vary by which sub-reddits I view. Doesn’t change the number of trolls whatsoever, but they also vary a lot depending on which sub-reddits you are in, typically the more popular, the more it is overrun with trolls.