https://gigazine.net/news/20210512-perverse-consequences-debunking/
- Prepared a bot account that looks like a human being with more than 1000 followers 3 months before the experiment.
- Send one public reply per user who posted a post containing a link to fake news to correct it.
- The account was suspended after 14 days of sending an average of 114 replies per day.
- Replies averaged 81 days after the original post.
It’s a “machine makes a counterargument to a man who is clearly wrong” construct, but when applied to something obscure, it could be a weapon in the public opinion poll arsenal.
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