That might explain why so many comments in this post on edible packaging didn’t reject the idea as defeating the purpose of packaging & were even suggesting wrapping the packaging in packaging to keep it contaminant-free.
- Post problem with product that’s not really a problem.
- People instinctively express their dislike of the product.
- Corporate troll posts solution, or inconsistencies with the post. “I’m not really a fan of ___ but this is a you problem. They even have a feature to help with such a problem. You people are overreacting. Did you even read the article? You losers should get a life.”.
- People are now discouraged to express problems with product, even getting sold on a feature.
Any platform that’s advertising based is a propaganda outlet. Reddit’s function is to manipulate pubic opinion.
Reddit’s function is to manipulate pubic opinion.
Who’s trying to manipulate my pubes?
I only believe peoples product recommendations when they have furry porn in their post history
And water is wet.
this is an opinion that gets strongly hated on, but I believe the marvel rebuild of the past 15 years can be directly attributed to this.
You mean it started with Marvel movie marketing?
…that’s it? i’m surprised
Its way higher than 15%
Or lower. The linked study does not contain any of the statistical claims of the article.
“The sun is at least 3 days old.”
This more insane than the great taste of RAT COLA. THE ONLY BRAND THAT MAKES YOU SCURRY LIKE A RAT.
No friend, I enjoyed RAT COLA but now BRAWNDO is more my brand. It has what plants crave, after all
Electrolytes
Electrolytes
I fucking wish lol
Only 15%?
Not even that. While the article claims that, the linked study isn’t even about reddit. It doesn’t prove any of the articles percentage claims.
The rest are Russian bots
Literal study: “most of rhe propaganda on social media comes from private companies”
Lemmitors “ThE pRoBlEm Is RuZzIa”
Keep blaming a third country for all your endogenous problems.
There’s a metric fuck ton of them here on lemmy too.
How do we know if they’re bots or just stupid people?
I operate on matrix rules. Whether or not they’re bots if they’re repeating bot points they’re bots.
The study is from 2018. I’m sure Reddit has had plenty of time to get those stats up. 15% is rookie numbers.
95% is technically ‘at least’ 15%
r/Canada and Postmedia
Been happening for years.
r/ any location, country, city, county, province has been taken over by tankies(for that specific area), conservatives, and goody two shoes people.
This is fairly harmless compared to the government trolls. Pretty much every Canada related subreddit has been dealing with a slurry of xenophobic posts from brand new accounts with hidden post history. The better subreddits quickly ban or lock them but several let them go as they reinforce the moderator’s own worldview. Not even the Costco Canada subreddit is safe.
We’re starting to see them here.
It’s hard to tell if it’s the division/outrage bots or if it’s just people who’ve been living on social media that’s made up of mostly division/outrage bots and they’ve picked up the bad behaviors.
You can point them out if you try to argue with them. They’ll have an almost encyclopedic memory of every negative story and outrageous anecdote as if they’re veteran reporters… but they employ rhetorical maneuvers and fallacies that would get them laughed out of a high school debate class. Bad faith arguments, textbook logical fallacies, etc.
with hidden post history
Yup. Fuck Reddit.
In the age of LLMs, it’s pretty well guaranteed that it’s going to be far worse than described in a study from five years ago. Anecdotally, it feels to me like closer to half if not more of the responses I get are engagement bait. It’s not just corpo, a lot of it is government trolls trying to shape opinion, domestic government and foreign governments. I don’t post anymore at all - just read - and that only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.
Very important to point out with this that Reddit has gotten markedly more fascist in these past three years – which is saying something – even while there is inexplicably a large number of people who call it “left-leaning” on the platform itself. It is safe to say that a high amount of “user”-content is bots of some kind, and that platforms that have high numbers of bots tend to become more conservative and fascist.
It’s both left leaning and fascist, because the left want fascism as long as it’s controlled by them.
You sound so desperate for me to not block you dude.
Huh?
I don’t care if you block me.
Communism isn’t right wing. You’re saying it is.
only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.
I think that’s a point that deserves more attention. Considering the “long tail” of niche communities and that the propaganda surely isn’t evenly distributed, it’s very possible that the big default and political subs are mostly propaganda and other shilling at this point.
Another good thing to point out. If you have the time to interact with those communities, it’s demonstrably populated primarily by bot-like content. Even more, moderation tends to be more opaque and aggressive against leftist comments or posts.
BREAKING scientists discover what everybody else already knew, still call it discovery
Scientists didn’t discover anything. The author does not link to a study backing his claims but only to one tangentially related to his article.
At least… meaning it could still be 99% ;-)
Sadly the study mentioned in the article doesn’t seem to exist. So we actually have no idea how high the number is.
