[roving]

Comment sections in Youtube videos are full of bots.

[cymbeline]

You can get bad information from human sources. You can get from machine sources. Same basic problem. We just need to avoid being taken in by increasing razzle dazzle.

[GingisK]

I think that Internet and phone applications are one of the root causes of our obvious collapse. There isn’t much actual eye-to-eye social interaction these days. Families out to dinner are all texting someone who isn’t there, and so on.

[minnesota_bound]

I talk to bots when on the phone to some company. Then it hears me getting frustrated with the choices and asks “Do you want to talk to a customer service agent?”....

[Grampa Dave]

Yes, the whole internet is now about marketing. Just a search engine exposes this fact. they have almost become useless to get any real information. Just folks who will SELL you that information you are looking for.

Each day Free Republic becomes more important re what is "reality" on the internet!"