Bot, or Not?

“How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot.” . . .

“The internet has always played host in its dark corners to schools of catfish and embassies of Nigerian princes, but that darkness now pervades its every aspect: Everything that once seemed definitively and unquestionably real now seems slightly fake; everything that once seemed slightly fake now has the power and presence of the real.”

—Max Read, writer, “How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.” New York Magazine, Dec. 26, 2018. Cartoon: Peter Steine.

  

 

• Editorial Comment: How do I know if I’m a bot or not?


 

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