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Old 03-22-2018, 08:20 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Insider Whistleblower.



Vox Popoli: Twitter's "Russia" bots are Google



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I work for Google. I’m not going to name the internal tech department for obvious reasons, I don't want anyone to pinpoint who I am. But I'm in tech, and work with Al. I’ll explain

My team and I created Al bots for Twitter. These bots are slightly different than regular Al bots, these are remote signal bots, but I'll explain what they do

My team and a "human intelligence" team, which is really just a propaganda team, work together to make certain topics trend, and persuade public opinion, which persuades political pressure. We do this by a groupthink method, we have a name for it internally, but "consensus cracking" is a more used name externally. But the bots we created, go into Twitter conversations and push a narrative. Some of the bots are verified accounts. And they start by arguing a point of view against someone, and then more bots join in and thumbs up the comment.

We are doing it with gun control now. More people see a “consensus" of gun control and people on the fence get persuaded to our narrative, and politicians get pressured by thinking it’s actual people.
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Old 03-22-2018, 08:47 AM
 
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Insider Whistleblower.
anonymous, unverifiable comments on 4chan dont exactly count as 'whistle blowing'


is it true? i guess that depends solely on how badly you want to believe it.
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Old 03-22-2018, 08:47 AM
 
Location: My House
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anonymous, unverifiable comments on 4chan dont exactly count as 'whistle blowing'
LOL!

Yeah... that's some flimsy "evidence."
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Old 03-22-2018, 08:49 AM
 
Location: Kansas City, MISSOURI
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I work for Google ... My team and I created Al bots for Twitter.
Kinda sad if Twitter is having to hire Google to write its software.
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Old 03-22-2018, 08:51 AM
 
Location: Florida
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How do we know it was not written by a Russian troll?

Sorry, but cowardly whistleblowers are just whistling in the wind. Come forward or go away.
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