Those articles don’t debunk shit, they just explain that the data on the charts is web crawlers. Nobody but platform owners can effectively estimate the amount of bot traffic they have - and even if they can distinguish today, cause with AIs it’s really complicated.
So we just don’t have the stats, but it doesn’t mean people can’t use personal perception. And yes, xitter is a lot cleaner now.
What the article really does is challenge the notion that bot behavior on social media is down as there is a significant lack of evidence. The burden of proof lies with the one who makes the claim, in this case, a European Parliament MP and the Ukrainian government (namely: Zelensky who repeated the claim).
As there is no evidence yet, and the only ‘evidence’ being touted so far does not in fact show what they say it does, the notion is falsified until further evidence is provided.
I’m sure people are happy to think social media has been ‘cleaned up’ a lot more, but I have yet to see any verified and reliable evidence that isn’t just ‘well I feel like’.
Those articles don’t debunk shit, they just explain that the data on the charts is web crawlers. Nobody but platform owners can effectively estimate the amount of bot traffic they have - and even if they can distinguish today, cause with AIs it’s really complicated.
So we just don’t have the stats, but it doesn’t mean people can’t use personal perception. And yes, xitter is a lot cleaner now.
What the article really does is challenge the notion that bot behavior on social media is down as there is a significant lack of evidence. The burden of proof lies with the one who makes the claim, in this case, a European Parliament MP and the Ukrainian government (namely: Zelensky who repeated the claim).
As there is no evidence yet, and the only ‘evidence’ being touted so far does not in fact show what they say it does, the notion is falsified until further evidence is provided.
I’m sure people are happy to think social media has been ‘cleaned up’ a lot more, but I have yet to see any verified and reliable evidence that isn’t just ‘well I feel like’.