Name: The Corporate Trolls Trying to Influence Opinions on Social Media
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Corporate Trolls Trying to Influence Opinions on Social Media' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-01-02. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience. I just read a thing about how
Corporate trolling is a big thing
like buying these corporations are buying in the ability to inform
Misinformation there's a crazy article. I can't remember the statistic, but it's
insane
I read it work from corporate trolls or something like that. What percent 15
percent. I think that thing I read was higher
But it's like holy shit. It's a thing and it which means it could have been a
thing then
Right, so which is why yeah
Go ahead even the people that like we were talking about the baby boomers not
just being spoon-fed the news
Even the people that think they're one level smarter are reading things that
are easily bought by a multi-billion dollar corporation
Something we you know, we wouldn't spend money on information
But why wouldn't they what a wild thing to do to hire someone to get a
narrative out and to pretend
You're a regular person arguing online, and it's totally legal. It's really
deception
New study at least 15% of all reddit content is corporate trolls trying to
manipulate public opinion now
Is that fraud? What is that? It's not technically fraud. What is it though? If
you're pretending to be a person
Should you have to sign a contract when you use a social media account like you
know this Nikki Haley lady?
I think she wants everybody to to have to like expose their name and their ID
whenever they post
But the problem with that is then that discourages like government whistleblowers
and things along those lines
Like if someone has like some important information that they have to get out
You know and also foreign countries that'll kill people
You can't if you if you have the rules apply to America, you're gonna have to
have those rules apply to other countries
How how many what percentage of people that are on Twitter are?
From the rest of the world outside of America. It's got to be pretty high
So how are you gonna enforce that you're not gonna be able to but even if you
did
like this idea that that's a good thing like I see why they would say that but
you should at least
Have to somehow or another prove that you're an individual. I don't know how
you would do that without giving up your information
But maybe you don't have to do it publicly, but there should be a way where we
know you're not a troll
like
Fucking man
The only problem with that is like it's a trap because the way is like a
digital ID and you don't want to give up a digital ID
You don't want to have like a thing that shows you
Everywhere you go online because someone will be able to just do things with
that
They'll be able to manipulate you from that into having something that's
attached to something else like whether it's a vaccine passport or a social
credit score
You know centralized digital currency that's on that phone with that app with
your unique ID
This is how we're gonna stop bank fraud. You're gonna have a unique ID. Nobody's
gonna be able to steal your money
Your money's all digital now technically they could track everything about your
life
So when you look at somebody your glasses can say how often they eat at this
restaurant and everything
So the is the solution to just allow the trolls allow corporate trolls and hope
that people are smart enough to realize they're being fucked with
But like what if those corporate trolls are shifting public opinion and it
actually costs lives
That's where it gets weird like what if they lie about something
Because they don't want to have responsibility for something they did so they
obscure the truth with these corporate trolls and it gets
messy enough where people just argue it out and they slide through and
You know when you think about the intentions behind who would they attack what
types of things would they try to manipulate?
It's the things that would threaten them. Yeah
Need a little clarification on this as I tried to dig through the article the
article is paid paid for behind a medium
So I can't get there, but paid for by trolls, right?
Exactly
Right, what it actually says behind it is
15% of the top 100 subreddits found to have content that was likely posted by
bots or corporate trolls
Specifically aimed at promoting certain companies or organizations. I don't
know why if that's why that's so
Hard to believe when we know how many trolls are on
Facebook and Instagram and there's constant trolls I was looking at someone was
someone was getting attacked for something like pretty minor
But it was just like reading the comments of this page and I do this thing now
where I'll go and I'll read something
It seems like a little weird or off or something and then I go to their page.
Oh, you're a fake account
This is a fake account. You have no posts. You're you're restricted. No one can
see it. You have no
You know, no followers you have like 15 followers like oh, okay. This is fake.
You got a fake account
How many of these are there? How many of these are there that are just
constantly commenting on things and trying to stir up bullshit?
Right weird is but it and it's legal so if right now there's no law that
prevents corporations from
Hiring people to pretend that they're a person or using AI to pretend they're a
person to put a narrative out if that's not illegal
Like what is that?
Like what kind of deception is that like you're not allowed to lie, right?
Like if a corporation has found that they're they're lying about data they get
fined
If they if they're if it's found out that they're lying about environmental
problems they've created or whatever they get fined
Right, they get in trouble people could go to jail
But if you could just have like a bunch of people constantly lying for you
Or if it's AI have AI constantly lying for you. Yeah, obscuring the truth
Publishing misleading papers, right?
I could just start publishing papers
Thank you.