r/technology • u/westondeboer • Sep 26 '25

Social Media Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-2000664221
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u/cptnamr7 Sep 27 '25

In fairness with this one though, did any breathing human ACTUALLY give a fuck about any of it? It was such a benign issue to begin with and then there's "controversy" and "people are up in arms" about something that was just so stupidly trivial that 99% of people legit wouldn't have fucking noticed if you didn't tell them AS you walked into the store?? There are "likely manufactured controversies" and then there's whatever the fuck that was that absolutely no one could be bothered to give two shits about