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Russian bots are using Star Wars to turn us all against each other now

• Russian bots are using Star Wars to turn us all against each other now

• Russian bots are using Star Wars to turn us all against each other now

  StrumSolo > 02/10/2018, 17:14

  Not content with their queering of the political pitch, those rat bot bastards are now using popular culture as a means to create division in America, according to a researcher named Morten Bay.
  
  Apparently, around 50% of the negative responses to the latest Star Wars film came from political troll accounts, many of them automated.
  
  In the recently published study Weaponizing The Haters: The Last Jedi he explains; '“The likely objective of these measures is increasing media coverage of the fandom conflict, thereby adding to and further propagating a narrative of widespread discord and dysfunction in American society. A number of these users appear to be Russian trolls.”
  
  Even the film's director Rian Johnson agrees (though I guess he would, wouldn't he?) that something's not right here. 
  
  

  A bit of Morten’s research came out awhile ago and made some headlines - here’s his full paper. Looking forward to reading it, but what the top-line describes is consistent with my experience online. https://t.co/MTRgmPxGgZ

  — Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) October 1, 2018

  
  
  

  
  
  Bloody hell.
  
  Enjoy the internet while you can, people.  It surely won't be long before our privileges are revoked.

• RE: Russian bots are using Star Wars to turn us all against each other now

  parkaner > 03/10/2018, 00:12

  And the best bit is that the Americans can't do the same thing back to them, as the Russians don't make any films anyone's heard of.

• RE: Russian bots are using Star Wars to turn us all against each other now

  StrumSolo > 03/10/2018, 08:16

  
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