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> You may not believe it, the vast majority of Chinese actually love the CCP and the system, they only just hate that a few corrupt low-level officials who are the bad apples fucking up leaders' glorious visions.

This has been a common theme with this "Fake News and Social Bots" stuff since the very beginning not reserved to China.

On the 34C3 there was a really interesting talk [0] about the troublesome nature of classifying users as "social bots" and how it regularly turns out to be completely wrong, with plenty of absurd examples.

Tho the English translation is a bit spotty, especially in the beginning.

[0] https://youtu.be/k6GUpbRq5Vs

parent freeflight 7 years ago

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