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Re:The spread of low-credibility content by social bots by koboll on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:39PM (#18499555)
The only laughable part about that is: only 1000?
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Re:The spread of low-credibility content by social bots by Lost_BiomedE on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @12:58AM (#18500475)
I assume it is like the number 40 or 10,000. It is a number substituted in to mean a very big number.
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Re:The spread of low-credibility content by social bots by flukus on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @01:22AM (#18500561)
Presumably the number of damned lies and statistics were much higher.
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