couldn’t read the whole article, but the first couple paragraphs seem to contradict the headline. ‘~15% of reddit users have encountered corporate astroturfing’ is not the same as ‘15% of content on reddit is corporate astroturfing’.
Reddit gets shittier by the day. Currently, they’re blocking users using a VPN, they’re trying to force you to either login to read, or to stop using a VPN so they can have even more of your data. Reddit should be burned to the ground, it’s a data-harvesting cesspool, run by a bunch of greedy dickheads. I wish everyone would wake up and leave at the same time, destroy their IPO.
There’s a way to bypass the blockade. swap “www” with “old” in the web address and you’re good to go.
I do that, but I don’t like the layout. Thanks though.
Isn’t this website AI generated stuff
Some portion of it likely is. Medium is like Wordpress.com with paywalls.
Medium? Not that I know, but I don’t keep up with these things.
Medium is a blog hosting site. It’s all user generated and there’s zero editorial control.
Did the definition of “trolls” suddenly change or is this author just using it wrong? Corporate astroturfing? Sure that makes sense. Corporate trolling? Not sure I get the point of that.
I think the editor was absent that day.
Yeah, I’ve been to r/movies.
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Well, the article (at least in the free part… I’m not making an account just to fact check this site) mentions two studies right off the bat and claims that they shed light on the impact of corporate trolls on Reddit.
“Two significant studies, the Pew Research Center study conducted in 2018 and the Computers in Human Behavior study published in 2020, have shed light on the prevalence and impact of corporate trolls on Reddit.”
If you look up these studies, the Pew Research Center has a survey they conduct and although the article claims they interviewed 2500 americans who use reddit the actual study had only 2,002 adults. It was also a study about what sites they used. It had nothing to do with Reddit. In fact, if you switch over to the Detailed Table, Reddit wasn’t even mentioned as a response. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/03/01/social-media-use-2018-methodology/
I could not find a “Computers in Human Behavior study published in 2020” that matched the article’s description. I did find a study published by them in 2020 about selfies and body image and especially snapchat. Once again, no reddit. But I can’t say I found the article mentioned.
Then again, I can’t say the articles mentioned exist at all. ChatGPT almost certainly hallucinated this.
The study is from 2018, and I wasn’t able to locate the original source from searching. Also, from the author’s bio:
Ph.D. Rocket Surgeon & Aspiring Troglodyte
The Hacker News discussion also does not inspire confidence…
