If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?
If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?
Uh, actually yeah it did. Turns out they were just normal pro-russia conservatives. I thought the Cucker interview would have made that connection pretty obvious. They weren’t paid to post that kind of propaganda, they were doing it willingly.
These things are not mutually exclusive. The fact that Russian propaganda bots swayed a large percentage of American republican fascists in no way debunks the bots. It just means that it was an effective propaganda campaign.
I’m sorry I was hoping what I was asking would be more clear:
Did something specific, that you can link to disprove the existence of Russian bots in social media?
Sure but first you have to get me a link to an instance of evidence ever swaying someone’s opinion on the internet and not just turning into a debate about the validity of the evidence.