Fakestagram – How bots and fake accounts simulate a vivid world in social media

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[–]HiddenFox 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Well said. I agree wholeheartedly that this is the biggest problem we are facing this decade.

Beyond in-person education on how to resist manipulation tactics there is little that can be done as it seems to be a war of "one upminship" between spammers and anti spammers.

Yelling online that something or someone is fake just seems to add fuel to the fire and I really feel that social media manipulation has a high degree of moving people to phyically act in the real world., thus creating a real danger when that compulsion to act is drivin by someones agenda (whether that be an individual, social movement, private company or government.)

Truly this is a great and serious problem of our age.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I agree it is a great and serious problem. A lot of people think "oh it's just some trolls saying bad words, no big deal." but they don't realize the incredible volume and coordination that happens. It's one thing when the trolls are 1% of the community. It's entirely another when the trolls or bots become 60%+ of the community, sometimes without the genuine users realizing it. It's very damaging to our most vital information stream, and damaging to human psychology at large.

[–]adultmanhwa 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

it is a great and serious problem

to whom? not to average people of course, and as long as not average ppl that's okay to me.

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is to average people, because average people use the internet. It affects everyone, as I said.