New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion

https://mander.xyz/post/14578309

New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion - Mander

Dead internet here we come!
Makes me miss the wild west days of the internet. Everything felt more… human. Now it feels like a soulless corporate husk. It’s wild that covid babies won’t know what those days were like.
Agreed, but Lemmy feels like the old Internet for the most part. I suspect that 90% ish of comments here are actual humans. The remaining 10% is pushing some kind of agenda.

I agree. There’s also a pervasive feeling that lemmy is unaffected by manipulation and misinformation.

If Lemmy continues to grow sooner or later it will become a large enough target for manipulation, and I wonder how federation will fare at that time.

Idk, hexbear content comes up in my feed and I feel that’s all manipulation and misinformation
That’s why I’m glad, that my instance defederated from those. I saw some of that content from another instance and I don’t miss it.