There was a university study I read yesterday that analyzed twitter feeds. It came to the conclusion that the majority of pro-open posters were bots, and due to sophistication of the program, it was likely state-sponsored. They said it had the feel of either Russia or CCP. We are on much better terms with Russia than Red China, so the logical culprit is Red China in my opinion.
Though, I can attest to the fact that it is influencing people. I see it in my own life with people I know. They want normal life back, they haven’t been touched by this and they choose to believe this because it is what they want to hear and can wrap their heads around. (normalcy bias).
The bots don’t worry me—it is the conservative “opinion leaders” like Rush and Hannity that have gone off the rails.
This must be how parents feel when they find out one of their kids has gotten hooked on drugs. :-(
I’d love a link to that one. I know people are being fooled and propagandized.
Correction to last post— “nearly half”, not most.
from Carnegie Mellon University
“There was a university study I read yesterday that analyzed twitter feeds. It came to the conclusion that the majority of pro-open posters were bots, and due to sophistication of the program, it was likely state-sponsored. They said it had the feel of either Russia or CCP. We are on much better terms with Russia than Red China, so the logical culprit is Red China in my opinion.”
That does fit. After all, China was telling us for months that we didn’t need to wear masks, and just like anyone who bothered to pay attention to Wuhan knew, we got the same, huge, outbreak as China. It was only after we started to ignore China’s ‘advice’ that the rate of growth slowed at all.