Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 45%-60% come from bots

Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by idreyn on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:00PM (#23362027)

I am trying to follow this supposed implication but I don't see the jump from "the valley" to "everyone who disagrees" and also from "dragging feet" and "making vapid appeals" to "idiotic and evil".

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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by Veelox on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:25PM (#23362256)

I will agree it's a bit of a stretch and I pattern matched to other arguments I have seen but "massive-scale abuse" and "real and actual harm" is language that presupposes a negative moral judgement about what is happening.

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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by DagAgren on Sunday May 31, 2020 @01:53PM (#23371230)

You think it is worth debating whether massive troll farms spreading misinformation and stoking hatred and division on a nation-state scale is good or bad?

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