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New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic
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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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More evidence for the Dead Internet Theory
Not yet but soon it will be
Death by a thousand ~~cuts~~ bot/shill posts.
I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing if people were good, but it can easily be abused as we’ve seen with election manipulation.