Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Expectations were high for the movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi last December. If you followed opinions on the internet, you may have been surprised at the vehement anger over Rain Johnson’s episode of the Skywalker saga. We know that Star Wars fans are the harshest Star Wars critics, but this time it felt different.
And it was. Morten Bay of the University of Southern California has published his research about the social media backlash against the movie, and found that it was highly influenced by Russian social media users, whether people or bots, and what might have been an exercise in covert influence.Bay suggests that reputation may not…
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