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Why do people assume the bots are "employed" by Tesla?

Non-affiliated investors do this shit all the time.

All corporations, even ones nowhere near the size, scale, or value of Tesla, employ social media teams who engage, or outright try to scrub, negative attention on social media, even the corporation I work for. And guess who has no hand in this at all? The CEO. Probably not even aware there is such a team.

I'm not defending Elon Musk, could care less about him and his holier-than-though weird cyberpunk/savior fetish mentality, but the narrative here is just as phony as the vast majority of Musk's lovers' orgasms.

I’ve mentioned this before in politics subs and they all act like I am crazy. What’s ironic, is that lefties will insinuate that I’m a conspiracy nut, and will pretend like they don’t believe in the 2016 election being influenced by Russian intelligence.

It’s amazing that anyone online believes anything that some anonymous comment writes at all. Any teenager can learn to make a bot hat downvotes or upvotes whatever they want. It’s not a hard thing to do.

Yet, people will swear that r/politics and r/conservative are both 100% legitimate and not at all is it possible that government and/or outside parties are influencing them.

The US is in serious trouble if they can’t learn to dismiss online ramblings from in person interactions.

That's funny. The internet is anonymous, anyone can create any social media account, email account or whatever account as much as they want, in a automated manner. Unless you check the history of each account, it's hard to know if those accounts are legit or not.

Knowing that, how can anyone take anything on social media seriously? People are paid for their political belief (via ads or other means). Influence is what give you money and power and social media just easily gives that if you have enough money.

I wonder how hard it was before the internet to influence people opinion on a subject. I feel like it was harder and much more work. It's sad because when the internet began, astroturfing was not a thing. Everything was purely legit people. Now, we don't even know. I could be an AI and no one would know.

For reference the bot designation seems to be based on analysis by "Botometer". Dunno how that's influenced by, say, crazy people manually tweeting out links vs being done automatically as a bot.


Using a software program called Botometer that social media researchers use to distinguish bot accounts from human accounts, the pair found that a fifth of the volume of tweets about Tesla were bot-generated. That’s not out of line with giants like Amazon and Apple, but their bots tended to push the stock market and tech stocks in general, with those companies as leaders, but not focus on any particular narrative about the companies.

Over the 10-year study period, of about 1.4 million tweets from the top 400 accounts posting to the “cashtag” $TSLA, 10% were produced by bots. Of 157,000 tweets posted to the hashtag #TSLA, 23% were from bots, the research showed.

Makes sense, I wonder how many other powerful people employ this tactic, hiring people is just money after all.

Recently watched narcos and drug lord shennanigans back in the day is beyond belief.

They got the corrupt goverment, media, you name it, they even got cocain made into busts, like marble ones, but with cocaine in them.

Chemistry and science are just RND factories paid by people with interests.

The veritassium video on bought research, and professional skewing was done by tobacco companies back in the day, wouldn't doubt today.

We're all people living on this planet, making shit happen.

Warming could be terraforming science, so get interested.

Find out how far we are now.

Trash elimination we learned better for humans than items we dont need.

People degrade.

Our plastic doesnt and burning is a no no.

I heard things about worms eating plastic, but creating life tends to have it's problems.

Varying degrees in the spectrum.

Are we changing with the trend?

I don't know, we will see.

I give a shit about it, because if we don't.. we will see what happens if we fail to terraform. And earth is a one time pancake, we don't live anywhere else.

Get me?