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Well well well. WarnerMedia’s internal reports found that a disproportionate amount of those calling for the creation of Zack Snyder’s Justice League and the return of the director’s vision for the DC Extended movie universe were allegedly robots. on line.
Rolling Stone obtained these reports, which found that “at least 13 percent of the accounts that participated in the conversation about the Snyder cut were considered fake, well above the three or five percent that cyber experts say they usually see on any trend topic “. Clearly, this leaves many real fans, including those toxic enough to send death threats to Warner Bros. executives. which seemed to be in the way of Snyder’s version of the Justice League. But it also points to concerted efforts to convince the studio that there were more people who wanted the film than there actually were.
Who was behind the robots? Rolling Stone contacted Alethea Group, which investigates social activity and authenticity, which found “the forsnydercut.com domain, which claims to have gone viral with the hashtag #ReleaseTheSnyderCut in May 2018 and became at the landing site of efforts to get Snyder back at the helm of the DC universe, at least for a moment, he was registered as a person who also ran a now-defunct advertising agency, ”Xavier Lannes called. This hashtag garnered more than a million tweets in March 2021, when Zack Snyder’s Justice League was posted on HBO Max, only to drop to 40,000 a few days later, making an unnamed digital media executive he called it “inorganic.”
The Rolling Stone article is a must read, as it details all of this and much, much more. See it here (if you have access, at least).
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