Spot The Bots

benstt said:

Not sure if this was posted here. A reminder of the importance of using common sense in these times.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/nearly-half-twitter-accounts-discussing-‘reopening-america’-may-be-bots

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This is why data and facts are irreplaceable, and non factual opinions are just that.
Cue the "Sweden success/open businesses now" Amigos.

only lockdown supporters who make up the rich privilege classes love to call the poorer working people who are loosing jobs and businesses and livelyhoods to the lockdowns "bots'. this same class distinction is seen right here in Toronto

poor working people from my home country are suffering under the lockdowns. rich snobby types who are enjoying the lockdowns think these immigrant working people are bots



the working poor, immigrants, "people of colour" women, the disabled are suffering the most asjobs, businesses and livelihoods disappear. the rich snobs don't care

This is what main stream media basically is.

The purpose of tv is to imprint suggestion.

The more you hear something, the more you tend to believe it.

Any social media has its fair share of bots and shills. Its up to you to look into it deeper to understand the message. The only problem is that it tends to turn people against each other as the puppet masters laugh and rub their hands.

https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthrea...r-investment-fund-manager-demands-end-to-CERB

An over paid billionaire who still getting paid and enjoying the lockdowns want to cut of CERB without telling the govt to end the lockdowns

Lockdowns are fine for the rich, but millions are too poor to shelter from coronavirus

March 25, 2020, 1:01 PM EDT
By Linda Givetash and Luke Denne

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/...ons-are-too-poor-shelter-coronavirus-n1168246

benstt said:

Not sure if this was posted here. A reminder of the importance of using common sense in these times.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/nearly-half-twitter-accounts-discussing-‘reopening-america’-may-be-bots

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Sad thing is many of these posters (see above) actually believe the botpaganda.

Bots on FB, Twitter, Instagram, youtube maybe on here too. Bots can now get past captcha tests. They influenced the last US presidential election. Most common bots in Canada are from China claiming Trudeau a dictator for holding Huawei executive. Then there is the 50 cent army, hired by the Chinese propaganda machine to make posts. Like the Corinavirus came from US soldiers, it was done by bots and 50 cent army. Sadly people believe all this without fact-checking. And then there's Fox News which is a whole other level.

Russain Man - the bots are mostly foreign not from the US.
COVID-19 disinformation being spread by Russia, China, say experts
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-coronavirus-russia-china-1.5583961

And:
5/26/2020 - About half of the Twitter accounts calling for reopening America are bots.

Cybersecurity researchers warn that misinformation campaigns from convincing bots are fueling much of the social media debate about lifting coronavirus lockdowns and reopening the economy.

A Carnegie Mellon University team analyzed more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or COVID-19 since January. And they found that between 45% and 60% of them came from bots, aka automated user accounts that mimic human interactions on Twitter TWTR, +4.26%, such as tweeting content and retweeting anything posted by a specific set of users or featuring a specific hashtag.

What’s more, 82% of the top 50 most influential coronavirus/COVID-19 retweeters were bots, as were 62% of the top 1,000 retweeters, according to the report.

“We’re seeing up to two times as much bot activity as we’d predicted based on previous natural disasters, crises and elections,” wrote Kathleen Carley, a professor in the School of Computer Science’s Institute for Software Research and director of the Center for Informed Democracy & Social - Cybersecurity (IDeaS.)

The research team analyzed the hundreds of millions of tweets by using artificial intelligence and network analysis techniques to identify the accounts that were likely bots, such as looking at the number of followers, the frequency of tweeting and an account’s mentions network.

“Tweeting more frequently than is humanly possible, or appearing to be in one country and then another a few hours later, is indicative of a bot,” Carley explained.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/a...bly-bots-report-2020-05-26?mod=article_inline

the privilege class crying bot bot bot bot while poverty is on the rise while they enjoy the lockdowns

Bad news: if you were living close to or at the poverty line prior to the COVID-19 crisis and the unprecedented economic downturn that has accompanied it, you're probably worse off now than ever before.

Impoverished people are more likely to work low-wage jobs without benefits; they're also more likely to work in retail or service, which means either risking exposure to a potentially deadly virus or being one of 800,000 Canadians who were laid off from restaurants alone in March. By contrast, wealthier people are apt to have jobs where they can work from home, receive more employment insurance, and are more likely to have savings, assets or credit to fall back on.

No matter how you slice it, the pandemic disproportionately impacts working poor and economically disadvantaged people.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/opinion-working-poor-hit-hard-covid19-1.5548544


https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/4/18/21212688/coronavirus-lockdowns-developing-world


https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/20/lockdown-developing-world-coronavirus-poverty/


Unusually for an infectious disease, covid-19 has primarily made its presence felt in wealthier countries — so far. Now we are beginning to see its effects in the developing world, although they may not be the effects you’d expect.

Uganda, which has zero covid-19 deaths to date, preemptively forbade the movement of private vehicles on March 30. Since then, at least seven pregnant women have died after attempting to walk to health facilities to give birth, according to a human rights group there. In Nepal, which also has zero covid deaths, a national lockdown that limited the movement of people and closed nonessential shops has also forced rural laborers to work less than half the number of hours they would even in the leanest part of the agricultural season. Hunger, not disease, tops their worries, surveys find.