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Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/02/multiple-former-twitter-employees-note-that-musks-new-favorite-tool-polls-are-easily-gamed-by-bots/

#elonmusk #twitter #polls #bots #spam #1

Multiple Former Twitter Employees Note That Musk’s New Favorite Tool, Polls, Are Easily Gamed By Bots

Rolling Stone has a fun article quoting multiple former Twitter employees highlighting that polls are the least secure tool on the platform, and are regularly open to manipulation by bots: “Polls a…
Techdirt
#bots #twitter #elonmusk #polls #spam

"And even though the internet is already mostly bots, we’re only just beginning to see the Bot Age take shape. According to the market-research firm CB Insights, more than a dozen venture-capital-backed bot startups raised their first round of funding last year."

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https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/bots-bots-bots/515043/

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The Internet Is Mostly Bots

More than half of web traffic comes from automated programs—many of them malicious.
Adrienne LaFrance (The Atlantic)
#bots #AdrienneLaFrance #vc #vulturecapital #cbinsights

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