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Elon Musk argues that the current cost of creating a bot on Twitter is less than a penny, facilitating widespread spam and manipulation. By implementing an $8 fee for prioritized visibility, the cost of maintaining a 100,000-account bot network would rise to $800,000 per month. This economic barrier is intended to push unverified "troll" content to the equivalent of the "eighth page of Google search results."
The net neutrality debate was fueled by a campaign from HBO host John Oliver, which allegedly crashed the FCC's comment system. Investigations revealed millions of bot-generated comments, including some using the identities of deceased individuals. The hosts point to the irony of tech giants like Google blocking Amazon and Microsoft services while simultaneously advocating for an "open" internet.
Online Advertising Fraud, Bot Click Statistics
A study by Oxford Biocronometrics reveals that between 88% and 98% of all online ad clicks are generated by bots rather than humans. The hosts discuss why mainstream tech publications are reluctant to report on this fundamental flaw in the internet's economic model.
Analysis of search engine bots suggests that Google's crawlers are significantly more efficient than Microsoft's. Data indicates that the Google bot often follows Chrome users to re-scan and index websites within minutes of a visit, effectively using the browser as a distributed crawling tool.
