{"id":105,"date":"2022-04-13T14:58:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2022-04-18T04:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T04:17:32","slug":"according-dubious-research-published-elon-muck-uses-a-twitter-botnet-to-pump-stock-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/according-dubious-research-published-elon-muck-uses-a-twitter-botnet-to-pump-stock-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"According Dubious Research Elon Musk Uses A Twitter Botnet To Pump Stock Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2022-04-12\/musk-is-off-the-twitter-board-of-directors-the-tesla-twitter-bot-army-marches-on\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2022-04-12\/musk-is-off-the-twitter-board-of-directors-the-tesla-twitter-bot-army-marches-on\">LA Times published<\/a> an article arguing that Twitter botnets helped Elon Musk build the cult of Tesla. Even speculating that Musk may have created or operated these botnets. However, experts were skeptical of the research. The article uses a tool called Botometer to determine what accounts are bots. The problem is Botometer is fundamentally unreliable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over a year ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.th-nuernberg.de\/person\/gallwitz-florian\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.th-nuernberg.de\/person\/gallwitz-florian\/\">Florian Gallwitz<\/a>, Professor of computer science and media at Nuremberg Institute of Technology pointed out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlorianGallwitz\/status\/1376227049837363205\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlorianGallwitz\/status\/1376227049837363205\">how flawed Botometer<\/a> is for research. In response to the LA Times OpEd Gallwitz Twetted, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Botometer\">@Botometer<\/a> scores for Elon Musk. Screenshots taken just a few minutes apart. This is the tool the &#8220;social bot&#8221; pseudoscience and hundreds of &#8220;scientific&#8221; papers were built on.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Botometer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Botometer<\/a> scores for Elon Musk. Screenshots taken just a few minutes apart. This is the tool the &quot;social bot&quot; pseudoscience and hundreds of &quot;scientific&quot; papers were built on. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fANsVFk9wj\">pic.twitter.com\/fANsVFk9wj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Florian Gallwitz (@FlorianGallwitz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlorianGallwitz\/status\/1514028268361592839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Another red flag: The paper mentioned in this article is available upon request according to the researcher who tweeted the article out today. So there\u2019s a thread about the paper and an article about the paper but nobody has seen the paper. Uhhm.&#8221; said Twitter users @KassandraSeven <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another red flag: <br><br>The paper mentioned in this article is available upon request according to the researcher who tweeted the article out today. <br><br>So there\u2019s a thread about the paper and an article about the paper but nobody has seen the paper. <br><br>Uhhm. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PStPEi0ai6\">https:\/\/t.co\/PStPEi0ai6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; KassandraSeven (@KassandraSeven) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KassandraSeven\/status\/1514049266884435975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In another <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1514041980359258122.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1514041980359258122.html\">long Twitter<\/a> thread, an online marketer stressed how hard it is to recognize bots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A lot of people act like Roombas in real life; operating just above a level where they change direction after bumping into a wall. And online people aren&#39;t that different. We are not all loggining on well-rested, properly caffeinated, and happy.<\/p>&mdash; . (@masonpelt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masonpelt\/status\/1514044671613362178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More Content: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/drilbot-creator-interview\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/drilbot-creator-interview\">Welcome to \u201cRobot Hell\u201d! Meet the Deranged Genius Who Created an AI Version of @Dril<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nathan-sanders.com\/2022\/03\/19\/contract-breaches-corporate-malfeasance-and-ndas\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nathan-sanders.com\/2022\/03\/19\/contract-breaches-corporate-malfeasance-and-ndas\/\">Contract breaches, corporate malfeasance and NDA\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/linked\/142272\/ethereum-based-stablecoin-protocol-beanstalk-loses-more-than-80-million-to-exploit\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/linked\/142272\/ethereum-based-stablecoin-protocol-beanstalk-loses-more-than-80-million-to-exploit\">Ethereum-based stablecoin protocol Beanstalk loses about $182 million to exploit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, LA Times published an article arguing that Twitter botnets helped Elon Musk build the cult of Tesla. Even speculating that Musk may have created or operated these botnets. However,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}