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Twitter suspends users after The Guardian reports they’re bots spreading climate misinformation
LaCorte News ^
| 2/24/2020
| Penka Arsova
Posted on 02/24/2020 2:10:45 PM PST by Zenyatta
Twitter has locked the accounts of two users with more than 60,000 collective followers after The Guardian reported they could be bots designed to push misinformation about climate change.
The Guardian's story, penned by Oliver Milman, centers on an unpublished draft study, which hasn't been peer-reviewed, but claims that a quarter of all tweets about climate come from bots. It then cited a tool called Botometer, to identify Twitter users @sh_irredeemable and @petefrt as likely bots.
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TOPICS: Issues
KEYWORDS: 1984; climatechange; globalwarming; internet; technotyranny; twitter; wrongthink
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:10:45 PM PST
by
Zenyatta
To: Zenyatta
People promoting the climate change scare are just babies. Unfortunately, these babies have the power to silence the adults. Our world is upside down.
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:15:31 PM PST
by
Rocky
To: Zenyatta
Oh, the Guardian.
So, they don’t any real science goin’ on out there. Only pseudo science approved by the “people’s paper”.
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:16:21 PM PST
by
Da Coyote
To: Zenyatta
My account gets identified as "a bot" by all the tools.
But yet I'm not...
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:16:55 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
To: Zenyatta
Article is saying those that deny the green scare are using the bots but those that are legit are the true twitter folks... Not sure I believe it word it says... I would suggest quite the opposite.
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:22:09 PM PST
by
LowOiL
(In America today, it is considered worse to judge evil than to do evil - Burk Parsons)
To: kiryandil
Me too. I think the tools are designed to empower Leftists to drown out people who make difficult to dispute points.
What I want to understand is why Twitter has me liking dozens of people & things I have no interest in, have never looked at & in most cases things I actively dislike. I postulate that they are markers to track conservatives, either only the # of likes count or the subjects/people are coded ie trump supporters are marked as liking American Football or Bashaud Breeland (whoever that is). Those are two of my latest marked as interest by Twitter.
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:28:31 PM PST
by
JayGalt
(You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
To: Zenyatta
Anybody who disagrees with us is a bot.
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:29:24 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
To: Zenyatta
Why not create a bot that simply sends/responds:
“The science is settled. A consensus of scientists agree that, biologically, there are only male and female. Everyone who disagrees is a science denier.”
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:33:56 PM PST
by
Cletus.D.Yokel
(Scatology is serendipitous.)
To: Rocky
Besides, as the vilest Writer has his Readers, so the greatest Liar has his Believers; and it often happens, that if a Lie be believd only for an Hour, it has done its Work, and there is no farther occasion for it.
Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceivd, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect
Jonathan Swift
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:34:01 PM PST
by
cgbg
(The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
To: kiryandil
It’s okay, comrade, you are among friends. We are all Russian troll bots here.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:49:22 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
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posted on
02/24/2020 2:56:59 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
02/24/2020 3:01:33 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
To: Zenyatta
If the people lying about “climate change” were banned from Twitter, Twitter would go bankrupt.
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posted on
02/24/2020 3:35:25 PM PST
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: Zenyatta
But bots spreading supposedly non-mis-information are okay?
15
posted on
02/24/2020 3:35:42 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Boogieman
If I had a nickle for every time I have been called a ‘Russian’ or a ‘bot’ I could buy...a cup of coffee, maybe even a latte.
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posted on
02/24/2020 3:41:59 PM PST
by
glasseye
("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
To: Boogieman
All your bots, are belong to us.
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posted on
02/24/2020 3:46:55 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
To: NativeSon
lesson: don’t upset the ultra-gloBULL warming zealots at The Guardian
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posted on
02/24/2020 4:20:00 PM PST
by
MAGAthon
To: cgbg
Great quote from Jonathan Swift. Thanks.
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posted on
02/24/2020 4:20:00 PM PST
by
Rocky
To: Boogieman
Da, pravda!
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posted on
02/24/2020 4:21:41 PM PST
by
kiryandil
(Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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