‘Quality Of Google Search Crashed’ – Concerns As Reddit’s Traffic Nearly Quadruples In Six Months
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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?

      • williams_482@startrek.websiteEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        From the Washington Post piece:

        But the study doesn’t go so far as to say that Russia had no influence on people who voted for President Donald Trump.

        • It doesn’t examine other social media, like the much-larger Facebook.
        • Nor does it address Russian hack-and-leak operations. Another major study in 2018 by University of Pennsylvania communications professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson suggested those probably played a significant role in the 2016 race’s outcome.
        • Lastly, it doesn’t suggest that foreign influence operations aren’t a threat at all.

        And

        “Despite these consistent findings, it would be a mistake to conclude that simply because the Russian foreign influence campaign on Twitter was not meaningfully related to individual-level attitudes that other aspects of the campaign did not have any impact on the election, or on faith in American electoral integrity,” the report states.

      • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        Liberals will cry for impossibly indisputable evidence then go silent when you actually manage to provide it.

    • pop@lemmy.ml
      514·
      1 year ago

      This. Everything wrong in US is some bot army peddling propaganda at labor camps. Might even add the Atlantians to the list of foreign influencers before claiming US has more than a significant amount of fascists, racists, xenophobic assholes that already elected criminal as a president, and others war criminals without a shred of repercussions.

      but whatever makes you sleep better at night.

    • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1021·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • SmokeInFog@midwest.socialEnglish
        225·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        166·
        1 year ago

        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?

        • Omega_Haxors@lemmy.mlEnglish
          819·
          1 year ago

          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. EDIT: And the admin literally did that and you went quiet, you’re so fucking full of shit.