I’d be surprised if it was only 15%
The other 85% is non-corporate trolls trying to manipulate public opinion
Worse. State actors to suppress the truth and push their narrative.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Fuck the rest of the admins too while we’re at it.
I am stunned it is only 15%. I guess the study ruled out the reposting of content.
I have seen shit echo on Reddit for over a decade.
Maybe the rest is porn.
Old news, its gotten a lot worse since then.
15% corporate trolls 35-45% state trolls
And this is what AI is trained on
Definitely a worry, training young minds on BS.
I think it’s safe to say it’s safe to say, >85% corporate trolling and public manipulation.
We used to call 'em shills, and talk about pitchforks!
Not just reddit - they’re taking over all social media including lemmy
Not on Lemmy - Instance admins usually either do that job or try to get people doing it out of there. And the userbase isn’t that large.
This article doesn’t really seem to validate it’s headline. I was eager to learn more about the methodology and how to better detect corporate content, but I was disappointed that they apparently just made the leap from the claim that 15% of popular subs host a non zero amount of corporate manipulation to the claim that this represents the fraction of total content.
I’m not saying this to dispute how much of the total content is corporate bots. I’m just pointing this out because I actually care about the quality of statistical claims and data science, and I hate to see my ideological allies either misusing data because they’re dumb or because they don’t have a commitment to truth.
🔫 Always has been
