silverbax@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoNew Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinionmedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square95linkfedilinkarrow-up1861arrow-down148
arrow-up1813arrow-down1external-linkNew Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinionmedium.comsilverbax@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square95linkfedilink
minus-squareDagnet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·2 years agowhat I noticed is that posts have huge amounts of upvotes, even from small communities, and often no comments or when it does have comments its often very basic stuff, almost AI like
minus-squareEatYouWell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·2 years agoWell, if you’re going to defraud investors by pumping up your numbers before your IPO, you might as well go all out.
minus-square🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoIs that recent? I haven’t used Reddit since a few months and that phenomena was previously only on promoted posts (read, ads)
what I noticed is that posts have huge amounts of upvotes, even from small communities, and often no comments or when it does have comments its often very basic stuff, almost AI like
Well, if you’re going to defraud investors by pumping up your numbers before your IPO, you might as well go all out.
Is that recent? I haven’t used Reddit since a few months and that phenomena was previously only on promoted posts (read, ads)
like 2 months ago