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dead Internet theory

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  1. A conspiracy theory claiming that the vast majority of content that people interact with…

    A conspiracy theory claiming that the vast majority of content that people interact with on the Internet has been produced by bots rather than actual humans.

    • The Dead Internet theory never said that humans do not have accounts. It made an entirely different point: that most accounts are bot accounts.
    • He told me about the dead internet theory, and about how some German hackers in 2016 found out that only 3% of humans get 90% of all internet traffic.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of dead Internet theory.

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