Hoo boy. Just in time for the digital release of Zack Snyder’s version of Justice League, Rolling Stone has renewed a fresh round of Snyder Cut discourse. There are plenty of claims in the lengthy new report — for example, the director is accused of refusing to return hard drives to make his alternate cut, requesting millions in production costs after shooting unauthorized new scenes in his backyard, and threatening to delete existing footage if he wasn’t allowed to keep a character arc that hadn’t been in the original script. (He denied doing any of those things.) Yet the bulk of the July 18 report actually focuses on claims related to social media. Reportedly, WarnerMedia commissioned two investigations into the ultimately successful online campaign to release the Snyder Cut and found that at least 13% of the accounts involved were fake. For reference, cyber experts told the outlet that the typical figures for fake accounts talking about a trending topic range from three to five percent, while Twitter has estimated that “false or spam” accounts make up less than five percent of daily active users (ya hear that, Elon?). A firm that identifies misinformation and social media manipulation also found that forsnydercut.com, a instrumental hub whose creator helped spread the viral hashtag #Release TheSnyderCut, was once registered to the CEO of a now-defunct ad agency that promised to bring “cheap, instant Avatar traffic to your website.”
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