Sunday, May 24, 2020

Russia and Trump, Hand in Hand, Again

Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity have been tracking bots and influence campaigns for a long time. Across US and foreign elections, natural disasters, and other politicized events, the level of bot involvement is normally between 10 and 20%, she says.

But in a new study, the researchers have found that bots may account for between 45 and 60% of Twitter accounts discussing covid-19. Many of those accounts were created in February and have since been spreading and amplifying misinformation, including false medical advice, conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus, and pushes to end stay-at-home orders and reopen America.
Nothing seems to change. The Russians flood Facebook and Twitter with all sorts of baseless conspiracy theories and similar bullshit and Trump and his army of flying monkeys swallow it whole.
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3 comments:

  1. B 5/25/2020 5:22 PM

    Like Y'all swallowed the whole "Russian Collusion" bullshit sandwich whole?

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  2. dinthebeast5/26/2020 2:08 AM

    https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download

    -Doug in Sugar Pine

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  3. Dark Avenger5/26/2020 12:48 PM

    Why did Flynn plead guilty, B? Why did he sign statements that he knowingly lied to the FBI agents in question?

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