Comment on Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed

• Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The article isn’t saying that Musk is behind the bots.

  The article is making fun of him for waving his opportunity to do due diligence before the purchase and being stuck with all the bots.

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  • pacoo2454@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of course that’s what the article is saying.

    “Bluesky users are roasting Elon Musk for his freshly exposed blue-checked bot army of fake Xitheads.”

    “Fast forward a year and it appears Xitter, the steaming remains of Twitter, is using bots to generate Tweets and look bigger.”

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    • Windex007@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is the author actually accusing the company itself of running the bots in that sentence? The more I read it the more it hurts my brain. The more times I read this article my brain just hurts more and more. They’re not even attempting to explain, let alone justify, this assertion.

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      • TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It wouldn’t be the 1st platform to try and use bots to boost numbers, except it is usually in the beginning when trying to reach that critical tipping point mass that brings people organically. This would be to make the ship look less underwater to save face (and possibly stop the whole platform imploding).

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    • hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Adding to that, the idea of the check mark used to be to ensure you were talking to who you thought it was. Now bots are verified.

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