Comment on Baidu: Driverless Car Hits Jaywalker in China

exanime@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s beneficial to know what the general public thinks about issues?

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  • Takios@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think “posts on social media” is a good indicator for what the public thinks anymore, if ever. The amount and reach of bot or bought accounts are disturbingly high.

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  • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Social media aren’t “the general public”

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you have a better way of interviewing Chinese Nationals for Western media?

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes

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  • exanime@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With the terrible demographic distribution, the absolute sewage social media is and the bots that make more than half the content. Of you want to know what the general public thinks, you could not chose any worse source

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  …they asked on social media.

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