What have you witnessed or seen that would sound like a conspiracy theory if someone else told you?

@operetingushisutemu@feddit.de · 2 years ago

What have you witnessed or seen that would sound like a conspiracy theory if someone else told you?

@rain459@feddit.nl · 2 years ago

There is a huge amount of fake and bot accounts on social medias, probably as much as the population of many cities, made and used to manipulate the public opinion.

possibly a cat · 2 years ago

I wonder how many visits lemmy admins are seeing from Eglin AFB IPs.

@ku10@kerala.party · 2 years ago

Right

_thisdot · 2 years ago

Correct

snowe · 2 years ago

That’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s been studied and shown true over and over.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-020-0340-4

https://medium.com/@robhat/an-analysis-of-propaganda-bots-on-twitter-7b7ec57256ae

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-media-and-democracy/bots-and-computational-propaganda-automation-for-communication-and-control/A15EE25C278B442EF00199AA660BFADD

https://headlineusa.com/china-bots-boost-propaganda/

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/projects/computational-propaganda/