'It would be more than a little ironic...'
While researching Tesla's social media footprint in 2021, University of Maryland researcher David Kirsch and his associate Mohsen Chowdhury say they discovered something odd.
Futurism sat down with Kirsch this week to hear more. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.My co-author and I were looking at every tweet that used that hashtag #TSLA, the company's stock ticker, and we found these weird accounts that just did not look like normal accounts. Right now, we don't really have a theory, except that it's happening. And the fact that it's happening raises more questions than it answers. Who was doing this? Who was paying for it? Who was controlling it?
F: With Elon buying Twitter, the big question now is whether he’s going to crack down on bots like he’s vowed to do. What do you make of that given your findings? The biggest question for me is: who's behind it? And how closely were they monitoring the activity, and tracking the consequences, of the content they were creating?
The whole purpose of our securities law is meant to ensure that everyone has an equal playing field around information. And so if people are manipulating that information landscape, and not disclosing it, I think that is problematic.The other day I talking to somebody and called this "the trillion dollar question."
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