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.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 month ago
Yeah. It’s probably corporate trolls manipulating public opinion.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
A corporate troll manipulating the public opinion by claiming corporate trolls were manipulating public opinion, that is.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah, yeah, I knew what you meant. I just thought it was funny imagining the serious tone of Blade Runner’s replicants pasted onto Reddit bots astroturfing for Burger King.
MangoCats@feddit.it 1 month ago
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.