I like running, poker and oysters | Founder, Social Forensics (SocialForensics.com) | Berkeley & UPenn | Learning to listen

But you’re the one always pointing out how many fake/spam users are on the platform lol. They gotta do something right? I think what’s being implemented sounds fair. I think ya need to cut em some slack. 

I know you’re just kidding around though. 🤙🏼

Founder of /success & /insider-trading. Search Marketing Director at Kraken Kratom.

Coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) and platform manipulation, more broadly, certainly are areas where WC has lots of room for improvement.. and I am happy to see more aggressive efforts focused on addressing spam!

That said, tackling spam is useful for improving the UX for current users.. but, in and of itself, won't improve content quality, volume, and diversity via attracting new users

It's not about whether or not accounts are real (real accounts can and do engage in platform manipulation)

It's not about whether or not accounts are bots (not all bots are bad)

It's not about making an assessment on the quality of content (determining good vs. bad content is subjective)

It's about mitigating against behavioral tactics – independent of the content itself – that seek to disrupt the information integrity of social platforms/protocols https://canvas.stanford.edu/files/5717559/download

It's about data being misrepresented & ensuring information integrity isn't being compromised https://warpcast.com/geoffgolberg/0x918893a4733f3da5ecd83b611271f9d58dc33b02

i always thought Geoff’s pov was like more about how the data was being misrepresented (and, frankly at times straight up lied about) more than it was about like wanting to eliminate all bot accts or smthn like that necessarily…