Let's look at the analytics of this tweet to try to quantify impact of something like this.https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/963535768600875008 …
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This is all fermi estimation, ofc. Some people click through every image on every receipt. Some only see one and bail. Either way, it's an impact measure. This is fundamentally how bots work -- inflating that impact directly and indirectly.
Automated theft of the public consciousness is not only possible, it's observable.
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