Could someone dive into the actual study and report on what a “Corporate troll” is defined as? Also, I note this is mostly citing user self reports… Do we really think that’s a good source?
Where is it citing user self reports? The linked study is a collection of opinions of selected experts. It’s a qualitative study on expert’s opinions not a quantitave one that is based on reddit content or user polls.
Please do correct me if I’m reading poorly; but the first subheaded section in the article doesn’t claim to be quoting a summary of experts, it is quoting a pew poll of 2.5k typical americans and whether they see ‘corporate trolls’ on reddit. If you click through the pew link, I see that Pew has a much longer article of expert opinions on this, with the topics covering many social media sites and phenomena. That includes a survey of 1.3k experts, but it is also weird:
42% claim online climate wont change substantially in the next decade?
Yes, the linked study does not substantiate any of the percentage claims made in the article but instead apears to be only related to the article by way of being about trolls. Since the link to the study is in a place where I would expect the link to the study that actually backs the article to be, I think either the author inserted the wrong link by mistake or, which I believe to be more likely since I couldn’t find a study that could have been the source of the article in the mentioned journal from that year, the entire article is AI generated and at least partialy made up. The article does not contain the word ‘reddit’ nor does it contain pictures so even of the experts interviewed, none mention reddit.
Yeah. It’s teaching how, of the 150 comments that this post had only about three were saying that the study didn’t exist. All the others just trusted the medium article blindly.
Could someone dive into the actual study and report on what a “Corporate troll” is defined as? Also, I note this is mostly citing user self reports… Do we really think that’s a good source?
I have no idea either, must be those people on there who constantly portray corporations in a positive light and attack anyone who criticises them.
It feels like the headline reinforces my first urge, so feeling a bit on guard.
I’m not sure how you operationalize (or falsify) ‘15% of people interacted with folks who they think like companies’.
Where is it citing user self reports? The linked study is a collection of opinions of selected experts. It’s a qualitative study on expert’s opinions not a quantitave one that is based on reddit content or user polls.
Please do correct me if I’m reading poorly; but the first subheaded section in the article doesn’t claim to be quoting a summary of experts, it is quoting a pew poll of 2.5k typical americans and whether they see ‘corporate trolls’ on reddit. If you click through the pew link, I see that Pew has a much longer article of expert opinions on this, with the topics covering many social media sites and phenomena. That includes a survey of 1.3k experts, but it is also weird: 42% claim online climate wont change substantially in the next decade?
Yes, the linked study does not substantiate any of the percentage claims made in the article but instead apears to be only related to the article by way of being about trolls. Since the link to the study is in a place where I would expect the link to the study that actually backs the article to be, I think either the author inserted the wrong link by mistake or, which I believe to be more likely since I couldn’t find a study that could have been the source of the article in the mentioned journal from that year, the entire article is AI generated and at least partialy made up. The article does not contain the word ‘reddit’ nor does it contain pictures so even of the experts interviewed, none mention reddit.
Oh wow that’s very bad.
Thank you for trying to hunt down the poll. I appreciate it.
Yeah. It’s teaching how, of the 150 comments that this post had only about three were saying that the study didn’t exist. All the others just trusted the medium article blindly.
Your comment made me start looking through the other clearly ‘misinfo’ posts I’ve seen so far. All posted by the OP here. I’m gonna block him.
I’ll also do that. I also notified medium of the article.