Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by drawkbox on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:14AM (#20712119)

Nearly all entities in products and politics astroturf heavily. In the end it is a massive critical thinking lesson and adds much needed skepticism to the populace.

The truth is the internet is teaching the biggest lesson ever in critical thinking and getting your information from many sources across spectrums, individuals, companies, countries, divides and more.

Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day, or make decisions based on fear, in those cases the populace is easy to manipulate.

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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by westoque on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:23AM (#20712156)

> Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not somewhere they can bask in their confirmation bias all day

While I agree that internet does teach critical thinking, it's also the the most dangerous. If you watch a video of Alex Jones on YouTube for example, I bet the recommendation engine would feed you similar items and would ultimately feed your confirmation bias. The machine learning is optimized for engagement and not necessarily to give you other views/perspectives.

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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by buyx on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:57AM (#20712300)

It’s great to talk about lessons in critical thinking for sophisticated first-world countries, but in third-world, poorly educated countries, people with poor literacy are being exposed to a firehose of propaganda.

The critical thinking lessons you mention are likely to come at the price of a massive loss of human life.

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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by iamaelephant on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:08AM (#20712574)

Whereas in developed intelligent countries you're all immune to this effect. Pretty cool.

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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by buyx on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:46AM (#20715064)

The difference is that developed countries usually have functioning police and intelligence agencies that can keep a lid on mob violence.

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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by lacampbell on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:49AM (#20712269)

The truth is the internet is teaching the biggest lesson ever in critical thinking and getting your information from many sources across spectrums, individuals, companies, countries, divides and more.

I just did a quick check: 5% of the top 100 submissions on hacker news right now are from one information source - The New York Times. Hacker news does have some technical content as well, so the percentage would be higher if we only count political submissions.

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