The Really Dark Truth About Bots

This video about the decline of X and the onboarding of propaganda bots explains this phenomenon quite well, especially if you follow the timeline of events: link to this video Coincidentally or not, it was marked by Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. At the end of the video, Benn states that he shared some of these insights with some news outlets that will take different spins on this story, so we'll probably see some interesting developments on this over the next weeks! Some questions that popped out: - Should X be banned in the EU for the deliberate, or irresponsible practice of promoting and protecting the spread of misinformation? - Should LLMs have security layers to prevent the automation of misin…

This video has nothing to do with Bluesky, but I think it provides a more likely explanation. Don't let the title fool you, it covers more than bots. link to this video

Benn Jordan did a good video that covered the bots and bias on X recently. Don't know if it or the papers were submitted here before (anyone feel free to submit it not): link to this video

Good news, I haven't been on reddit for years. The bots are real, regardless of what either of our opinions are. link to this video It's odd when certain topics - vaccines being one of them - come in with a flurry of comments when it isn't even highly upvoted. Especially when you have some drivel as the top comment saying Gates flew on the "lolita express" and some link to Prince Phillip. Ooookay? What about the article?

…oom to explain why vast swathes of the US has a very "I've got mine, fuck you" attitude. This also seems to be somewhat recent, because "Universal right to food" was one of the things proposed in, I want to say the 40s-50s? as one of the basic fundamental rights. Which, outright couldn't happen now with the current state of American Politics. 1: link to this video 2: idk there's a laundry list of news outlets confirming both of these points, if someone wants to argue about it then it's likely we'll never agree in the first place, as the evidence has been widely available for almost a decade now and is very clear in terms of evidence of Russian influence in voter manipulation, general public opinion…

> Grok has an advantage in its access to Twitter data. Or is the advantage the other way around? That it has access to Twitter users (the ones that are not bots, that is)? link to this video