Well what a surprise -- it looks like the bulk of the online vitriol against Star Wars: The Last Jedi was not only politically motivated (which, obviously), it was also amplified by Russian troll bots. According to THR, an academic paper by researcher Morten Bay titled Weaponizing The Haters: The Last Jedi and the strategic politicization of pop culture through social media manipulation studied the online response to The Last Jedi to see if it really did "ruin" the franchise as some fans have claimed. The result, unsurprisingly, “finds evidence of deliberate, organized political influence measures disguised as fan arguments. The …
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