The ramifications for Twitter surrounding fake users or algorithmic bots are considerable. One issue is overcharging advertisers for ad impressions based on mDAU’s, which are “monetized Daily Active Users.” The second issue is an outcome of the first and relates to the valuation of Twitter. If Twitter bots are higher than Twitter estimates, then the mDAU rate is overstated.
Elon Musk is indicating there may need to be a lowering of the purchase price unless Twitter becomes transparent with how they are calculating the number of bot users at less than 5%. All outside reviews attempting to estimate the number of fake accounts, or bots, puts the estimations considerably higher than the claims by Twitter. Elon Musk tweeted:
At “The All In Summit 2022,” Elon Musk gave the impression the purchase price of Twitter may be tenuous. He said that a deal with a lower price tag is not “out of the question,” Bloomberg reported. “Currently, what I’m being told is that there’s just no way to know the number of bots… It’s like, as unknowable as the human soul,” Musk said at the Miami conference, per a social media video, Bloomberg added.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrwal has responded to the controversy in a very obtuse twitter thread:
Let’s talk about spam. And let’s do so with the benefit of data, facts, and context…
First, let me state the obvious: spam harms the experience for real people on Twitter, and therefore can harm our business. As such, we are strongly incentivized to detect and remove as much spam as we possibly can, every single day. Anyone who suggests otherwise is just wrong.
Next, spam isn’t just ‘binary’ (human / not human). The most advanced spam campaigns use combinations of coordinated humans + automation. They also compromise real accounts, and then use them to advance their campaign. So – they are sophisticated and hard to catch.
Some final context: fighting spam is incredibly *dynamic*. The adversaries, their goals, and tactics evolve constantly – often in response to our work! You can’t build a set of rules to detect spam today, and hope they will still work tomorrow. They will not.
We suspend over half a million spam accounts every day, usually before any of you even see them on Twitter. We also lock millions of accounts each week that we suspect may be spam – if they can’t pass human verification challenges (captchas, phone verification, etc).
The hard challenge is that many accounts which look fake superficially – are actually real people. And some of the spam accounts which are actually the most dangerous – and cause the most harm to our users – can look totally legitimate on the surface.
Our team updates our systems and rules constantly to remove as much spam as possible, without inadvertently suspending real people or adding unnecessary friction for real people when they use Twitter: none of us want to solve a captcha every time we use Twitter.
Now, we know we aren’t perfect at catching spam. And so this is why, after all the spam removal I talked about above, we know some still slips through. We measure this internally. And every quarter, we have estimated that <5% of reported mDAU for the quarter are spam accounts.
Our estimate is based on multiple human reviews (in replicate) of thousands of accounts, that are sampled at random, consistently over time, from *accounts we count as mDAUs*. We do this every quarter, and we have been doing this for many years.
Each human review is based on Twitter rules that define spam and platform manipulation, and uses both public and private data (eg, IP address, phone number, geolocation, client/browser signatures, what the account does when it’s active…) to make a determination on each account.
The use of private data is particularly important to avoid misclassifying users who are actually real. FirstnameBunchOfNumbers with no profile pic and odd tweets might seem like a bot or spam to you, but behind the scenes we often see multiple indicators that it’s a real person.
Our actual internal estimates for the last four quarters were all well under 5% – based on the methodology outlined above. The error margins on our estimates give us confidence in our public statements each quarter.
Unfortunately, we don’t believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we can’t share). Externally, it’s not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs on any given day.
There are LOTS of details that are very important underneath this high-level description. We shared an overview of the estimation process with Elon a week ago and look forward to continuing the conversation with him, and all of you. (Link to Twitter Article)
Methinks Parag Agrwal doth protest too much…. Especially if you overlay the ideological incentives that Twitter carries into its operational platform.
If you accept that Twitter is manipulating the public conversation intentionally (they are), then Twitter bots would serve an ideological function. However, the issue of ‘bots’ operating on the Twitter platform is interesting when you consider the cost of platform operation.
On one hand, extensive auto-generated ‘bots’ would be an issue of cost and data-processing, a net negative. On the other hand, the use of bots would be a manipulative practice for the creation of false impressions to generate advertising revenue.
If the scale of data-processing was subsidized, an outcome of a network of data processing centers -the AWS cloud- linked to government resources, the bots would not be a cost issue for the operation. Despite the false impressions generated, bots would, however, under this weird situation, be useful for the manipulation of the conversation.
At the root of Elon Musk’s line of inquiry is the need to discover if this suspicion is true.
If the scale of bots has been underestimated (likely by a willfully blind operation) the advertising fees charged by Twitter were potentially fraudulent. This is another operational reason (mitigating lawsuits from advertisers) for Musk to make the determination prior to the final purchase of the platform.
Taking Twitter private as a company, eliminating bots (which is essentially removing fraudulent users) then carries the potential benefits of both lowering costs and positioning the company to increase genuine ad revenue from authenticated users as real people.
Many people suspect the size of the political left on the Twitter platform is manipulated by programatic bots. Meaning there seems to be more people on the left side of the spectrum because bots are deployed to give the impression of like-minded users. I am one of the people who believe this suspicion is accurate, because it would be a typical way the ideological left operates.
The bots would be in addition to the deployment of algorithms that are designed to suppress speech the platform operators do not like.
I have long suspected the Twitter algorithm process is essentially assigning certain users into specifically designed data-processing containers where their voice is suppressed. Some people call this ‘shadow-banning,’ I simply call it suppression.
Elon Musk represents a threat to the way the platform was/is designed to operate. If Musk removes the discussion constraints, opens the containers and removes the restrictions, while simultaneously eliminating bots and fake accounts, the entire perspective of the platform could change very quickly. This is what I think the current board and operators are trying to avoid.
Another rudimentary way to look at it…. Think about the last several months of public opinion polls. Despite the efforts of a compliant media, repeatedly we see a 75/25 split against Biden and leftist policies. The 3:4 and/or 4:5 ratio has been a consistent pattern for several months. That ratio shows up in almost every poll. However, if you look at Twitter that ratio is not present in the “organic” conversation about the same issues.
As CTH has said for many years, there are more of us than them. However, Big Tech controls the mechanisms we use to communicate – and as a consequence the scale of our assembly is severely understated.
Twitter user fraud is the digital and social media equivalent to voter election fraud. The voices raised in opposition to researching both issues are exactly the same.
Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious….
The bot farms of Twitter have absolutely infinite fertilizer capacity.
so Twitter is 90% bots
run by engineers who work 10% of the time
who are 90% communists
10% of which are culturally and ethnically connected to the heritage of America and the West
Stellar math presentation, mac – I commend you
Sundance said: “Many people suspect the size of the political left on the Twitter platform is manipulated by programatic bots. Meaning there seems to be more people on the left side of the spectrum because bots are deployed to give the impression of like-minded users. “
Yes – absolutely
In the early days I kept hearing about a key point of focus: what was “trending”
(as in “trending on Twitter”)
No easier way to get a favored topic trending than to pile on a heap of fake accounts liking or re-tweeting the topic
And by “favored” I mean “favored by the operators / Left”
Nothing new – that’s been talked about forever
no wonder Twitter felt like they could deplatform half the world
because they could just fake new users ie bots
who needs real users (who might actually have opinions wokistas dont like) when you can fake them via bots
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Where the hell are those damn Macedonian Content Farmers when you need ‘em?
I’m just waiting until it’s safe enough for the Return of Kek
👍 Perfect , Nim !
It’s this way in all things. I was in St. Augustine last weekend during the National Day of Rage ( or whatever) regarding Roe v. Wade. I was expecting a real show all I got were 15 dunskies, 3 were men, SCREECHING lies and bullsh!t with hand made signs. I said to my wife let’s watch local news tonight, the story and the angles of the camera would make you think they had a large crowd but they just didn’t, it was a fail. As an aside, none of these people ever have to worry about getting pregnant or getting anyone else pregnant, just saying.
Bingo! Well said! The only thing that I would add is the deep state establishment is involved in this up to their proverbial necks….
Im sure sing song Nimkowitcz (intentional) has a video of her singing about it, out there, somewhere over the rainbow.
Up to their proverbial eyeballs I would guess.
Bingo.
Makes you wonder if Musk is suspicious about the bot issue as a standalone or if he further suspects the entire basis of the company may be government-centric? No way to tell right now, but he best be careful.
I also kinda wonder about all of this coordinated propaganda news. Are they really able to square-up their talking-points that fast amongst each other or is there some singular source (i.e., administrative deep-state clearing-house)?
Elon is no fool. He already smells a rat, and unless he receives absolute proof his purchase is wise, he will deal with the problem in a manner the people at Twitter will certainly not like.
I believe “..He [has] already seen the rat…” is likely more accurate.
He has now, what with the Veritas reveal
He knew it going in. This is why I believe his purpose is to destroy Twitter.
The people who most want to fight for the survival of the USA are people who originated in other countries. They KNOW what it’s like to face what the USA is becoming. We native born US citizens only have stories and can’t help but to take for granted certain things. And while we’re all starting to wake up, they were aware for a lot longer.
The 4 a.m. talking points come from somewhere and are written by someone.
Expose that one and shut it down, you’ll be thanked by millions.
Her name is Nina. She sings songs.
His name is Nino and he has a twin named Lia.
About your “Also”, I believe it USED to be an opporation called “Media Matters”, which generated daily “talking points” that are then blast-texted/e-mailed to hundreds if reporters, directors, etc.
And that is why you can change your station every 2-4 seconds, “at the top of the hour” and hear one clear, logical sentence as parts of it are read by 4-5 different ‘journalists’.
And the Pols get it, too.
So again, the Unified message.
The vaccine is safe and effective.
Musk’s exit from the deal is predicated on Twitter’s “bad faith” dealing. The destruction of Twitter may well come in the form of advertisers suing for refunds. While I think it would be better if he could expose the dirty government deals going on with Twitter (which are all constitutional violations of civil rights on a massive scale) it would be just as well that Twitter simply died.
This, of course, is the reason why the legislators are calling for more extreme management of speech on the internet at large. They see they threatscape shifting and that they will absolutely lose control of the narratives.
I kind of like the idea of all these “woke” advertisers getting scammed on the reach of their dollars spent purchasing the advertising space.
I’m beginning to believe that twitter is the Journ-o-list 2.0.
Maxine and Joe told us about that database that Obama built. Twitter is just part of the show.
Musk has the Twitter commies crying.
No formula for you!
OMG. Twitter turns out to be total fraud and full of overpaid commies.
Yeah, WHO would have guessed it?
“Shocked,…shocked I say, to discover gambling in this establishment!”
Next, you’ll tell me that CNN is a fraud! OMG!
MIC?
Men In Charge?
Monkeys In Canada?
My Itchy Collie?
Sundance, my theory is a bit different from yours.
The bots are the advertisements. They’re bought for by companies to advertise certain things, like events, products and most importantly, create narratives. The bots are not to manipulate DAU’s/MAU’s, but rather reinforce what companies/governments/etc. are trying to push.
Nope
That would make all or many advertisers on Twitter guilty of criminal fraud. I seriously doubt that.
I have never joined Twitter. The reason is that too many people on that site are really cruel cyber bullies who have far left views that are based on false claims. Anyone who opposes them gets tons of horrible comments, name-calling rants, and accusations, like a bucket pouring out water.
One interesting story that ties to this bot story is the Project Veritas exposé of a Twitter engineer here who admits that they are communist and do not believe in free speech:
https://reclaimthenet.org/twitter-senior-engineer-admits-platform-censorship-bias-in-recorded-conversation/
Just as, by refusing to participate in their polling, we inadvertantly make it easier for Twitter to scew things left, by our non-participation.
In 2016, we may have benefitted, as the other side Underestimated DJT’s vote count, and so underestimated how much they would need to create, to beat him.
But, overall is it in our best interests to actually help the other side, in its creating the false impression that THEY are the Majority, and WE are the minority?
Perhaps we should consider participating in polls, and on Twitter, so that we AREN’T a “Silent Majority” any more?
Nah
I like your “Underestimated” theory instead
That works to our advantage
Its a fool’s purchase. More bots can be created in nanoseconds.
Musk could pull the deal completely off the table and will have exposed and damaged twitter without it costing hardly anything.
I understood he has to pay a billion$ penalty if he bails out. That will be in court while he tries to prove fraud. Messy indeed
Not if they are negotiating in “bad faith.” And bad faith is what we see a lot of from Twitter.
you say that bots are less than 5%, but everybody else says there are more than that, you need to show proof.
-let’s talk about spam. less than 5% are spam accounts.
I think twitter just admitted misleading the public.
Spam is Russian Brides, Nigerian Princes, and the RNC begging for money.
Bots are computers pretending to be people to bias the conversation.
There can be overlap. Using bots to spam would expand one’s ill-gotten graft. But he said he is fighting spam, not bots.
Answer the question you want to answer, NOT the one asked.
And, answer it in great detail, hence the “protesteth too much”.
That way you can say (lie) that you have been “totally forthcoming” if challenged.
BINGO.
I personally have no doubt that Twitter is loaded to the gills with bots. Think about the run up to the 2016 election, how right wing voices dominated on every platform you can think of. Even minor right wing voices were drawing impressions and engagement in numbers that dwarfed so called mainstream sources. Those right wing voices were all drawing organic numbers, too.
After 2016, Twitter began a systematic campaign of silencing those voices by limiting their reach. Shadow bans, algorithmic suppression, and outright bans were the usual tools used.
Now, all Twitter has left is the left wing voices, which we all know are largely bot driven, and Elon is starting to catch on.
Are they bots? Or are they real people that are paid to comment? Paid by the Ccp?
Twitter is a total fraud and people believe what they read! People have been fooled!!!!
Spam is something we fight every day. And that day is today, which is not just another day, but this day. And on this day, we fight spam like we do every day.
– Parag Harris.
Together …
Excellent…!
Kamala-speak. A new language is spreading.
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It has antecedents:
Spamala Harris
Here is the presenting problem. They are CPA audited with out a qualified opinion.
The CPAs attest that the financials fairly reflect their revenue and assets.
CPAs have the tools to verify transactions.
By GAAP they are required to comment in foot notes to financials.
Under Sarbannes Oxley, the officers have a duty to sign off and attest to their reports.
This deal could close. It could fall apart and it could also implode like Enron.
This is the due diligence phase and I suspect Twitter is hiding and blocking.
This is proof that Elon gives two f’s about Twitter. The dude is smart enough to know that this is how you destroy them.
Prediction:
Twitters auditor restate their findings.
Musk threatens to pull deal
CEO Parag resigns along with top management.
Numbers are restated showing only 30% of active users are real
Elon walks
DWAC picks up the pieces.
Facebook next
From your lips to God’s ears!
No wonder Jack stepped away.
Elon Musk Sends The Poop Emoji To Twitter’s CEO
https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/16/elon-musk-poop-emoji-twitter-ceo-parag-agrawal/
He should’ve put this in front of it: 🐂
“Your account is permanently in read-only mode, which means you can’t Tweet, Retweet, or Like content. You won’t be able to create new accounts. If you think we got this wrong, you can submit an appeal.”
In other words: “you said something that we didn’t like.”
But … what do advertisers think about that? Perhaps they’re just too accustomed to advertising in “magazines, radio stations, television stations, and newspapers,” which have no way to send their wares only to recipients that they politically agree with. And who would be immediately caught in the act of fraud if they “invented” subscribers whom they then claimed to have viewed your advertisements.
Obviously, if your account is in “permanent read-only mode, and you can’t create a new one” you are never going to visit the site again. You have been excommunicated.
But, from an advertiser’s point of view, this necessarily means that their ads will now only be meaningfully “viewed” by people who are “politically aligned with” the [newspaper|radio station|television station|magazine].
Most of the accounts that we “spend millions of dollars in advertising on” do not excommunicate their subscribers based on differences of opinion.
Did your monthly advertising invoices advise us each month of the number of your subscribers who (you say …) used to receive our advertisements, but who will never do so again because you disagreed with them?
Are we not now properly entitled to some form of compensation, because you permanently cut off our access to a potential customer, through no fault nor action of our own, after we paid you some pro rata share of our previous invoices specifically in order to reach them? 🧐
Do the invoices that we have dutifully been paying all these years reflect that, or have you [quite likely, now that I think about it …] simply been inventing users to make up the difference, just to support your fairly-impossible “earnings?” 💥
Oh, the next few weeks promise to be most interesting for Twitter …
… and, I assure you, it will simply be the first “social media domino” to fall.
Because: “fraud on the market,” if proved, is a crime. 🤡
A pleasant thought with which to end the evening. Early to bed, early to rise and all that.
G’night Treepers.
Joes coffee shop, where the coffee is FREE!
Fraud vicciates EVERYTHING.
Parag Agrwal’s Kamala response : ‘We are in this TOGETHER and must put our minds TOGETHER and work TOGETHER to finally know TOGETHER how many bots exist.’
Did Kamala write that? lol
“As CTH has said for many years, there are more of us than them. However, Big Tech controls the mechanisms we use to communicate – and as a consequence the scale of our assembly is severely understated.”
ain’t that the truth!
I don’t see how Twitter gets out of this: ignore Elon and share price plummets and then get sued by investors or tell the truth and get sued by investors and advertisers while selling to Elon at a discount.
Elon has checkmated them again, just like with the purchase price.
Dude didn’t get to where he is at such a young age by being a passive dummy.
Twitter is already being sued by numerous investors for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, etc etc. There are huge cases working their way through No. California courts right now.
So the twitter guy gives this long diatribe about how terrible spam is, how difficult it is to remove, and how his team of experts are toiling away in the bowels of the system doing their very best to fight off this never ending menace. Almost as if he is trying to apologize for the twitter experts inability to sly this humongous dragon that’s about to consume the entire platform. Maybe I should pack my bags and exit post haste before I’m consumed too? And yet, in the middle of all this he casually boasts that these spam accounts are less than 5% of all accounts. At that small amount it doesn’t seem like too insurmountable a problem. Nothing to see here folks, move right along now…….
Resolute, you make a very important point: “…he casually boasts that these spam accounts are less than 5% of all accounts. At that small amount, it doesn’t seem like too insurmountable a problem.”
If the bots were actually less than 5% of the “proclaimed” the platform’s users, this would be a nothing burger. Elon would have never brought it up. I think people are going to have their minds blown when it is revealed how few actual users Twitter actually has as compared to what they boast.
The smug communist employees of twatter thought they could outsmart musk by inflating the price for bots and musk caught them. This is getting good.
Sundance, this is a complete aside, but thanks for keeping this a free thinking chat. There are some dumb comments but you let everyone speak (within reason).
I feel compelled to say this as sites like CitizensFreePress (Kane) is heavily censoring the chat to the point people are going elsewhere and it’s based on Kane not agreeing with their opinions.
You know how many corporations have gone woke, tripping out on critical race theory. I have often wondered why they would think that was what people wanted them to do?
What if they came to that conclusion based on information from social media – like Twitter and Instagram? And if Twitter is largely made up of bots, maybe those bot statistics gave corporations the wrong idea? That it is really only a small minority of people who want to spend money on woke companies?
If Elon Musk exposes the bots, might that have an enormous effect on all kinds of things? I hope so.
I think the CEO’s are strong armed. Do this or else!!! FBI and CIA work for Deep state. They will get you.
Ask President Trump.
In which case the CEO’s are just beards, which means Musk is actually taking on the I/C, by taking on Twitter.
PDJT was under assault by the I/C, from at least since the escalator ride, if not earlier.
He actually did pretty good against them; muh Russia and perfect phone call coup attempts FAILED, attempt to lower his approval #’s with Mueller leaks,….FAIL.
“I think the CEO’s are strong armed. Do this or else!!!”
They get Mau-Mau-ed
Like Reverend Al Sharpton has perfected
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers – Wikipedia
Seems to me that if we can agree that Twitter has had an enormous impact on society, than what Musk is doing, just based on what he has done so far, will definetly have far reaching impact on many aspects of Society.
look to the power, money and ideology of Black Rock, and you will find your answer there.
In the marketplace of goods and services, and the marketplace of ideas,…
Conmunists can NOT compete, hence they MUST cheat.
We see it with CCP China using cheating trade practices, like dumping, I.P. Theft, etc. And, the I.P. theft reinforces that they can not compete in marketplace of IDEAS.
We see it with “Politics” not just in the U.S., but in five eyes, and other E.U. Countries; where both parties, or in a Parliamentary system, virtually ALL parties are actually moving the same agenda, and just playing divisive games with ‘the other party’; One party, disguised as two or more parties, to create the illusion of choice for voters.
THATS CHEATING.
We see it with Dominion voting, again used not just in the U.S., but many other countries as well. In addition, we see the “Mules” traditional ballot stuffing, dirty voter roles, ghost voting, etc.
THATS CHEATING
Conmunists MUST cheat, cause whether its the marketplace of goods and services or Ideas, they can NOT compete.
“Twitter CEO Parag Agrwal has responded to the controversy in a very obtuse twitter thread:”
That’s one way to put it.
Desperate excuse making is another.
Agrwal’s comments are not ‘excuses’. He is trying to limit his criminal liability, both in future cases and in the multiple court cases already working their way thru the courts. Twitter is already fending off numerous fraud cases
“The bots would be in addition to the deployment of algorithms that are designed to suppress speech the platform operators do not like.”
I believe suppression is the bigger issue. Suppress one conservative Twitter user while promoting 3 leftist users, then add in the bots promoting the leftist viewpoint, and you have an exponential appearance of leftist thought.
yes – an extensive and highly influential propaganda machine
Especially in today’s society, where most people can’t seem to think for themselves. It’s hard-pressed to find someone who can articulate their viewpoints. Most are only engaged for a few seconds at most.
Musk should hire Julian Assange! He can work from anywhere and what a story! You know Hillary and Obama
want to kill him. So do everything to protect him. And give him a job!
“It’s like, as unknowable as the human soul,” Musk said
Says the technocrat oligarch who doesn’t believe in God and wants to “upgrade” the human soul to “something better”.
Agrawal says he’s going to give us facts and data, then says he can’t, cuz confidential.
Of course twits are manipulating the system, in various ways, to produce their desired agenda results. How many times I’ve looked at a conservative tweet with tens of 1000s likes/RTs, to see only the ugly vile comments from the “left”.
And, if they’re partnered with the government, well, that’s exactly the govt’s standard MO…
Musk pretty much wins either way. He is now beyond a household name no matter how this turns out. Personally I think he walks and takes a modest (for him!) financial hit.
And we have a couple of Suspicious Cats on premises – be careful with these wily creatures…..
They’re trying their damndest to build an illusory, fraudulent world based on a mountain of lies, enabled by every conceivable criminal means. While hoping that this is the strategy that will successfully usher them in as rulers of the world. That grandoise shit never ends well.
I follow CTH tweets on nitter.net. how have you eluded banning for so long?
Maybe the twats have learned to fear our fearless truth-seeker. Thank you Sundance. God bless.
This is a good development. To be honest, most sites should have been properly audited long ago. Marketing guru Bob Hoffman (the Ad Contrarian) called this b-s years back.
Bob Hoffman’s “The Golden Age of B-S” (AdWeek 2014):
Reminds me a little of the early days of the internet (WWW). The experts talked about how it would revolutionize the way automobiles are sold. It would put new car dealerships out of business. More people would buy vehicles. And other grand wholescale predictions.
Net result. How many new car dealerships were closed because of the internet? Not one. The experts didn’t read the laws that protect new car dealerships.
How many new vehicles were sold as a result of the internet? Not one. Every person who wanted to and could purchase a new vehicle did so.
Reality is, 30 years later, the internet became just another channel in the whole of the advertising/marketing/sales process.
Good stuff, thanks for sharing!
The winners on the internet are those who have a product that solves a real user problem, and can design a site that makes it easy to find and purchase the product at a reasonable price.
Seems criminal, sort of like fraud. Advertisers should be teed off to a point of civil action., a danger to the future value of Twit.
Not “sort of like fraud”, Steve. Twitter is already dealing with numerous court cases for fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, etc. These are not torts, they are criminal actions.
The left cannot exist without fraud, cheating, lying, stealing, harrassing, bullying and smoke and mirrors. It has always been so. The only way to implement their agenda and political system is brute force, which they attain by making the majority believe they are the minority when nothing could be further from the truth. And there it is, the further away from the truth you get the more left you become. They eventually live in a craven world of fantasy. Gee, doesn’t that sound like the direction present day America is going.
Makes me wonder how many of rhese bots are part of Gen. McChrystal’s online digital army. Haven’t heard much of anything since they were talking about him using military technology to basically target Trump supporters they were villifying as online extremists.
The phrase “Empire of Lies” extends beyond the US Government. It’s prevalent in corporations, too.
The bots in social media is the equivalence of fake votes in our elections. The whole Deep state effort is based on cheating. They have no real support, though they have (USURPED) POWER until they have it no more.
Everything is fake- they have literally manufactured a fake world in order to control us, and it’s working! Amazing! MK Ultra has come a long way, baby!
The government’s very own bot farm that’s all they do at Twitter manage the bots for the deep state communist. #MAGA
Require a captcha by everyone for one week or month and look at the difference.
The longer this goes on, the more this looks EXACTLY like a take-down of Twitter and not an actual attempt to buy it. I mean if they went through with it, I have no doubt he would too. And with that, he would have exposed LOTS of evidence of criminal activity quite directly. (The crimes can be assigned to human perpetrators, not just to corporations)
The citizens of Potemkin are about to be called out on their crap.
Watched an interview of a guy who has done some amazingly good analysis and has done a great job of calling the Marxists out on their sh!+.
https://rumble.com/embed/v1215sn/?pub=5vzvn
In his analysis, the left KNOWS they are lying about pretty much everything and he has done a lot to prove that.
Yes!
Klavin with Lindsy – great interview!
For your viewing pleasure – both are ‘grab-your-pen-and-take-notes’ outstanding:
Ideas Have Consequences, by Bishop Barron:
Cultural Marxism, by Dr. Voddie Baucham:
Looks like another left wing media company has no clothes , a couple of dozen ” influencers ” and a couple of million bots , one wonders if those bots voted in the last election ?
Twitter is not there to reflect opinions – it is there to create and shape opinions. Just another propaganda tool for the liberal uniparty.
I had a thought this morning after reading this, as I was taking my burrito out of the microwave. It’s been difficult to reconcile Musk’s actions and words, currently and in the past. It’s tough to know the motivations of another person, especially when all we have is superficial comments and ambiguous actions. But consider a little thought experiment:
What if he’s trying not to save Twitter, but to destroy it?
The biggest thing that Twitter has going for it is perceived market share. I don’t think anyone would argue against the idea that it’s been carefully grown and shepherded into the form as it exists today – the apparent venue for conversation, investigation, journalism, learning. And while it may have started as a neutral platform, it definitely isn’t anymore. The most valuable membership is the agitating left, who can be fed a flow of constant outrage and amplification to validate their choices.
Now we have someone that’s not ideologically aligned with that segment, poised to take a controlling stake in the platform. If he reveals that a sizeable number of accounts are completely automated, or are merely repeaters following a script – to where 25-30% or more of all accounts are effectively fake – I suspect it’d be a deathblow to the platform as an effective narrative controller.
Rush talked about the investigation his people did into the bots and they found out that all the negative comments against him was just a few people.
Musk’s concern is a fair concern. The age old standard for purchasing a business, is to look at and reconcile what they say in meat space.
With an online social media asset, and for the kinds of money we are talking about… without seeing the operating code and algorithms, you are buying a “black box” that could be a digital “Theranos”.
TCT’s point, about hidden players, “The Ghost in the Machine”, is a point well taken.
I keep thinking, that I hope Musk has really good security. There IS a Deep State… and they kill with impunity. It’s no joke.
Musk is pushing against this: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
The crapheads are just puppets.
Maybe Musks’s intention all along was never to buy Twitter, but to expose it.