jackhutton on Nostr: Wow: “Early in the COVID-19 pandemic a blizzard of disinformation had deadly ...
Wow: “Early in the COVID-19 pandemic a blizzard of disinformation had deadly consequences. A Carnegie Mellon study analyzed more than 200 million tweets discussing COVID-19 at the height of the first lockdown. Eighty-two percent of influential users advocating for “reopening America” were bots. This was a targeted “propaganda machine,” most likely Russian, designed to intensify the worst public health crisis in a century.”
#ai #TheComingWave #disinformation
82 percent!
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