Who Let The Bots Out? Who? Who??
Doesn't it seem that some people --many people in fact--will believe anything these days?
How do seemingly normal and intelligent people fall for ridiculous conspiracy theories without question? What's happening to our ability to discern between the plausible and the preposterous?
In this latest episode of The Dejargonizer Podcast we talk to Guy Tytunovich, co-founder and CEO of bot-mitigation company Cheq.
Guy takes us into a shadowy, and automated, underworld where authoritarian regimes deploy armies of fake robotic avatars (bots) on social media platforms, especially around elections. ?
Their aim: tear Western societies from within, peddle and amplify conspiracy theories based on disinformation, and weaken democratic societies.
As the world heads into a bunch of elections in 2024, understanding how dictatorships deploy Bot Armies, and how democracies can counter them, is becoming crucial.
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1 年What a fascinating podcast.