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Inside: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/26/car…
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Inside: Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/26/car…
#Pluralistic 1/
Next Thu (Mar 2) I'm in #Brussels for #Antitrust, Regulation & Political Economy, with a who's-who of EU and US trustbusters. In-person and virtual attendance are free:
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On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
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brusselsconference.com/registration
On Fri (Mar 3), I'll be in #Graz for @ElevateFestival:
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Dow promised to turn sneakers into playground surfaces, then dumped them in Indonesia: Corporate "recycling" programs are just obfuscated landfills.
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We started looking at automated activity (and potentially other aspects of) tweets containing various #<candidate first or last name>2020 hashtags (e.g., #Warren2020, #Kamala2020, #Bernie2020, etc.) We examined tweets from Jan 1st - July 3rd, 2019.
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Looking more closely at the 2020 hashtags that have both a significant percentage (we used 10% as a cutoff, 3%-ish is average) of automated activity and at least 1000 tweets, we see sizable volume for tweets posted via VK (Russian Facebook-esque social network.) What's the deal?
The VK activity in the 2020 hashtags comes from 21 very similarly-named accounts. Account names are the display name with "Im" prepended (e.g., "Alberta Swift" = "@ImAlbertaSwift.) All tweets were posted via VK, and none tweeted before 2018 (despite some being created in 2015.)
Fringe news source frontpagemag(dot)com decided to publish a conspiracy theory-laden diatribe from Milo Yiannopoulos about the Notre Dame fire, so we in turn decided to look at bots linking the site.
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We downloaded tweets linking frontpagemag(dot)com, resulting in 5135 tweets from 2862 accounts. Only 15 (0.5%) accounts, responsible for 144 (2.8%) of tweets, appear to be automated, which isn't a terribly remarkable percentage. One in particular merits a closer look, however...
14 of the 15 accounts were flagged as automated based on use of automation services and/or 24/7 activity. One of the major nodes in the network, @aiiamericangiri (lowercase because #keming) does not meet these criteria, but we classified it as automated anyway. Why?
