How Much of the Internet Is Fake? (nymag.com)

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By 2018, less than 60% of web traffic was human & half of YouTube views were bots masquerading as people. This wild article is about how much of the Internet is fake. - Toot by sheril@mastodon.social

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[-] brombek@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I think that all this ad driven businesses did in the last decade was to undermine trust in technology in general. Nothing can function without trust...

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