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 days ago
I’d be surprised if it was only 15%
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 days ago
b_tr3e@feddit.org 3 days ago
this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.
Yeah. It’s probably corporate trolls manipulating public opinion.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 days 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 days ago
A corporate troll manipulating the public opinion by claiming corporate trolls were manipulating public opinion, that is.
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 days 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 days 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 days ago
15% of reddit is probably political, the other 85% are niche subreddits.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 3 days ago
You think corpo content is limited to political subs?
DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 3 days 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 days ago
r/SFWimaginarywerewolves
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 days ago
r/SFWimaginarywerewolves
old.reddit.com/r/SubsIFellFor
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You’re welcome. :)
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 days ago
old.reddit.
+1
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The other 85% is non-corporate trolls trying to manipulate public opinion
northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Worse. State actors to suppress the truth and push their narrative.
traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Better. Cat people pushing their narrative making me want a cat.
modifier@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
You need a cat.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Litter boxes in classrooms confirmed!
MangoCats@feddit.it 3 days 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 days ago
Sounds like what a Warner Brothers AI bot would say… 🧐
J/k btw
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Nah. It’s 10% non corporate trolls. The rest is all bots.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 3 days 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 days 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 days 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.