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Re:Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation by emphatizer2000 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @11:55AM (#25883836)
For the millionth time: the number of bots tweeting about something doesn't imply a lot of people are actually seeing the tweets.

Also, afaik all the botometers are crap, so studies based on them are also crap.

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Re:Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation by Zuider on Saturday January 23, 2021 @12:35PM (#25884304)
The bot detectors are not very sophisticated, and they definitely have categorised several individuals whom I know to be real humans as 'bots,' apparently based on their political persuasion. It is ironic that human beings can fail a Turing test carried out by scripts, and disturbing that those peoples voices should be silenced based on such shallow criteria.
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