Old news, its gotten a lot worse since then.
I am stunned it is only 15%. I guess the study ruled out the reposting of content.
I have seen shit echo on Reddit for over a decade.
Maybe the rest is porn.
Well the article said that the study is from 2020. So it might be a lot worse now.
The study is likely fabricated by this blog post from what I can find.
You might be right. I tried to check the “Computers in Human Behavior” to find the article, but couldn’t find it.
It says AT LEAST 15%
I’d be surprised if it was only 15%
The other 85% is non-corporate trolls trying to manipulate public opinion
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Worse. State actors to suppress the truth and push their narrative.
Better. Cat people pushing their narrative making me want a cat.
You need a cat.
Litter boxes in classrooms confirmed!
I’m doing my part! (Jk, I got banned from Reddit for sharing a Luigi meme and mentioning that historically when things are this bad, people resort to violence)
I honestly can’t stand Reddit since I can’t use Apollo anymore. The official app makes my feed like 40% adds and “suggestions,” so I just stopped using it. Pretty much the only way I see anything on Reddit now is the RDX app, and you can’t post or comment.
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Yeah, I don’t understand why someone would want or need to use an app for Reddit. Reddit is a website, just use a browser.
If you’re on mobile, use “desktop mode” if the mobile site starts giving you lip. Or just pre-emptively switch to it.
Nah. It’s 10% non corporate trolls. The rest is all bots.
15% of reddit is probably political, the other 85% are niche subreddits.
r/SFWimaginarywerewolves
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You’re welcome. :)
You think corpo content is limited to political subs?
I don’t think we know what the actual figure is because this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.
Edit: But of course this post is taking off anyway because Lemmy users are soooo much more discerning than those dumbass Reddit users.
this blog post ostensibly fabricates this alleged 2020 study.
Yeah. It’s probably corporate trolls manipulating public opinion.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a corporate troll manipulating public opinion.
A corporate troll manipulating the public opinion by claiming corporate trolls were manipulating public opinion, that is.
The headline also does not say the same thing that the post claims!
Headline: “15% of content” --> every 6th or 7th post or comment is a corporate troll
Article: “15% of subreddits contain” --> the vast majority of subreddits contain no troll content
Actual study: [file not found]
I also cannot find any Pew research study resembling the one described. The link is a 2017 report that doesn’t mention reddit.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Unless you’re a jailbait, then maybe don’t fuck Spez.
Fuck the rest of the admins too while we’re at it.
And this is what AI is trained on
This blog post was plausibly written by AI. Look at the fabricated source on the 2020 study and at the wording.
Definitely a worry, training young minds on BS.
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15% corporate trolls 35-45% state trolls
Guy from Langley spending 80 hours a week posting hundreds of SpongeBob memes to convince the Wendy’s PR company flak that we need to invade Greenland for national security reasons.
Not just reddit - they’re taking over all social media including lemmy
Not on Lemmy - Instance admins usually either do that job or try to get people doing it out of there. And the userbase isn’t that large.
I think it’s safe to say it’s safe to say, >85% corporate trolling and public manipulation.
🔫 Always has been
We used to call 'em shills, and talk about pitchforks!
So bots are just dandy, but I create a new account and am shadowbanned almost immediately for posting a single comment on r/Politics too soon? Cool cool cool
That was last March and how I ended up on Lemmy, so I guess maybe I should be thankful.
I create a new account and am shadowbanned almost immediately for posting a single comment on r/Politics too soon?
Completely new accounts posting in r/politics is a category of users that contains a massive amount of bots. Most subreddits have a minimum karma/account age to post specifically to mitigate some of the bot problem.
You didn’t lose anything, your voice is just going to be drown by the 20,000 LLM bots and vote manipulation accounts.
This article doesn’t really seem to validate it’s headline. I was eager to learn more about the methodology and how to better detect corporate content, but I was disappointed that they apparently just made the leap from the claim that 15% of popular subs host a non zero amount of corporate manipulation to the claim that this represents the fraction of total content.
I’m not saying this to dispute how much of the total content is corporate bots. I’m just pointing this out because I actually care about the quality of statistical claims and data science, and I hate to see my ideological allies either misusing data because they’re dumb or because they don’t have a commitment to truth.
Yeah, the number is bullshit. I left before AI was truly reasonable and it was flush with corporate fanboys and vote manipulation, paid or not. Also it certainly wasn’t 15% of the subscribers, depending on the sub it might have been more or less of the active participants. Popular subs about products, hobbies, or software seemed to have a LOT of this product is just really great where for the most part noone is going to push their affinity for one corporate product over another.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one - the article is disinformation, “fake news” in the purest sense.
We need more people with your kind of diligence.
Yeah the article is pretty trash.
15% of the top subs contain corporate propaganda becomes “15% of the subs are compromised”, “compromised” means something more than “contains propaganda” to me.
God up in fucking heaven. This person writes an entire-ass blog post about this 2020 Computers in Human Behavior study and can’t even be fucked to link it, name its authors, or even say what the title is. I cannot find this paper anywhere. I looked through all twelve 2020 issues of Computers in Human Behavior and could not find this study. I searched keywords. Nothing.
What an obnoxious fucking dipshit and their useless fucking unsourced piece of shit screed. Based on the wording and the fabricated sourcing, I wouldn’t be surprised if this braindead cretin generated this ragebait blog post with an LLM.
I could’ve told you that.
For an article quoting a study, this one is embarrasingly short on actual references or links to the reddit subs and posts it mentions. There’s literally only a link to the 2018 study and the rest coild well be speculation.
Now I don’t know about corporate manipulation, but what I can confirm I’ve seen is a lot of small businesses using reddit to shift opinions. For example: local rental car providers on the madeira sub. Or food retailers on my local city’s sub.
And, more worryingly, there’s an absurd amount of political propaganda. For example the waves of accounts on my native language sub supporting absolutely everything a political party does. Or the blatant manipulation being done on conservative. Or the sudden vanishing of near all kamala-supporting accounts in the morning following american election night. It’s absolutely astounding.
