From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tlaronde@polynum.com (tlaronde at polynum.com) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:49:03 +0100 Subject: [9fans] mark shaney again... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20110325204903.GA9846@polynum.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c13e8f14-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:16:59PM +0000, Steve Simon wrote: > > Fake Tweets by 'Socialbot' Fool Hundreds of Followers, > New Scientist, (03/24/11), Jim Giles > This is not new. "Politicians" are socialbots generating sentences from a limited set of "politically correct" chunks (this means: that don't make sense) and have, still, millions of followers... and cause millions of deaths too... And a majority of "research" papers could be made by socialbots too (the difference with today is that every fake researcher is doing the swindle by hand---I mean by mouse). -- Thierry Laronde http://www.kergis.com/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C