I wonder how many media narratives over the last few years have their origins in bot campaigns. 
Here we have Business Insider reporting on this and connecting it to Elon Musk, which led in part to GE pausing ads on the platform. It was all bots.
The media cited research from the The Network Contagion Research Institute @ncri_io and @AlexWGoldenberg, and I think they have some explaining to do.
Did they create the bot campaign themselves, or did they neglect to do adequate research and kick off an entire media firestorm based off a false narrative? Was this just corporate espionage playing off our racial divisions and fears? If so, that’s incredibly evil.
Here’s a little sampling of the media, especially Jeff Bezos’s WaPo, (even LeBron freaked out about it!) parroting this false narrative from some no-name research group and a campaign of 300 Twitter bots.
This is all a prime example of why no one believes the media anymore.
It was GM, not GE that paused ads.
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