It says what we already know, you are a bot.
Yes1. Do you really believe my posts are automatically generated?
or
2. Fairies wear boots?
There is that big Liberal word.....”MAYBE”....throw enough crap, “MAYBE “ some will stick.....
1. Do you really believe my posts are automatically generated?
or
2. Fairies wear boots?
Or did I miss something?
Here's my take....
What the article says may very well be true. However, and this kills the article's value for me, the article didn't address (other than a hint at the beginning it would) the obvious other, and equally important, question: was the other side of the coin considered (i.e., how many accounts that champion "staying closed" are bots)? I don't need to know necessarily what that result was, but I do need to know that both sides of the "story" were looked at.
Because the "other side" wasn't addressed to any substantive degree means - to me - that this was a bait & switch post (whether intentional or not) that winds up being less about "science" post and more about agit-prop for the "stay at home" position.
Or did I miss something?
--- End of line (MCP)
Here's my take....
What the article says may very well be true. However, and this kills the article's value for me, the article didn't address (other than a hint at the beginning it would) the obvious other, and equally important, question: was the other side of the coin considered (i.e., how many accounts that champion "staying closed" are bots)? I don't need to know necessarily what that result was, but I do need to know that both sides of the "story" were looked at.
Because the "other side" wasn't addressed to any substantive degree means - to me - that this was a bait & switch post (whether intentional or not) that winds up being less about "science" post and more about agit-prop for the "stay at home" position.
Or did I miss something?
--- End of line (MCP)
Bot Lives MatterBots are people too, dammit!
Q&A with Kathleen Carley on the spread of coronavirus disinformation
What role have social media bots played in this, and where are these bots coming from?
It's too early to say where the bots are coming from, but we're finding that 40 percent of the discussion around coronavirus and COVID-19 is coming from bots. Of the users themselves engaging in conversation around the virus, we're finding around 22 percent of them are bots.
A big issue is that these bots are very influential – the network around them is configured such that they have a lot of listeners. Forty-two percent of the top 50 influential mentioners are bots, 82 percent of the top 50 influential re-tweeters are bots, and 62 percent of the top 1,000 re-tweeters are bots. This means that, similar to the virus itself, disinformation about the virus is spreading quickly – only much, much faster.
No, a bot would sound more intelligent.But I'm not. Do you really believe my posts are automatically generated?