When we first started seeing amber heard johnny depps stuff on on tiktock, snap, chattwi, facebook, instergram, everywhere, the initial feeling a lot of people had was something like, this must be bots. But eventually we realized that it was indeed real. Yes, there were quite a few firms who analyzed boht activity, that looked into it, and they found couple hundred bots or thing - which i think is pretty typical. Around any major news event, there are people who will create bods to participate in it for various reasons,. probably have to do with click farming.
It’s not just Johnny Depp’s fans — it’s Amber Heard’s anti-fans, too. The Atlantic's Kaitlyn Tiffany explains the Depp-ressing social media hate campaign.
This episode was produced by Amina Al-Sadi with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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