Half of ‘Last Jedi’ haters were bots, trolls, activists: study


LOS ANGELES: How much did movie fans hate Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Perhaps not as fiercely as social media might suggest, according to a US academic study which found that half of negative tweets about the 2017 movie came from bots, trolls or political activists, some of whom may be Russian. 

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