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But one can say that 20% of the content on the platform was distributed by bots. Meaning that all the Lurkers have to consider if they are really interested in content, that was pushed by some bot-farms. Technically, every user of this platform has to take a step back and evaluate, if anything they have seen is not pushed content by some bots.

20% is huge and I am curios if there will ever be some comparable "official" numbers to that.

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No - you can say that 20% of the accounts actively posting are spam/bots.

It's possible they are posting MUCH more or less than 20% of the content.

If these are skewed toward the high end of producers - the 80/20 rule would say that as much as 80% of the content could come from them. Still - it's possible this content isn't interacted with much outside of other bots. You can't draw many conclusions from such a limited data point.

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