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At Least 15% of Reddit Content Is Corporate Trolls Manipulating Public Opinion (medium.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

15% is massive

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Top comment from the Hacker News discussion:

The title is false. It seems to derive from the following paragraph: “The results were alarming, with 15% of the top 100 subreddits found to have content that was likely posted by bots or corporate trolls, specifically aimed at promoting certain companies or organizations.”

It's not 15% of content. Nowhere even close. It's 15% of top subreddits that might contain just a single post considered "likely" (no actual verification) to be from what they call a corporate "troll".

In other words, it's a completely meaningless statistic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Just what a corpo shill would post

[–] SinningStromgald 3 points 9 months ago

So it's exactly what everyone thought: greater than zero.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

and that's the Low-ball estimate.