{"id":19451,"date":"2022-07-19T20:05:42","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amber-heard-thought-she-was-being-trolled-by-bots-during-trial-with-johnny-depp-new-report-says-bots-werent-the-culprit\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T20:05:42","slug":"amber-heard-thought-she-was-being-trolled-by-bots-during-trial-with-johnny-depp-new-report-says-bots-werent-the-culprit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amber-heard-thought-she-was-being-trolled-by-bots-during-trial-with-johnny-depp-new-report-says-bots-werent-the-culprit\/","title":{"rendered":"Amber Heard Thought She Was Being Trolled By Bots During Trial With Johnny Depp.  New Report Says Bots Weren&#8217;t The Culprit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>the <u>Amber Heard and Johnny Depp legal battle is over<\/u>, at least for now, but it&#8217;s clear that the defamation arguments are still very much on the mind of a lot of people.  The lawsuits stirred up a lot of interest online, including a fair amount of harassment focused on Amber Heard.  That harassment actually became part of the arguments, but a new report indicates that while Amber Heard believed she was the target of bots, most of the campaign against her came from actual people.<\/p>\n<p>When <u>Amber Heard filed a countersuit against Johnny Depp<\/u> for defamation, one of the elements of that suit was the accusation that Depp had hired bots to troll the <em>aquaman<\/em> actress online, as a way of controlling the online narrative.  But a new report from research firm Bot Sentinel (and reported by <u>GIS<\/u><u>)<\/u> claims that for the most part, the trolls targeting Heard and her defenders were not bots.  Instead they&#8217;re seemingly people that came together and organized against her.  According to Bot Sentinel founder Christopher Bouzy\u2026<\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It does not necessarily mean a bunch of folks in a small room, some place in St.  Petersburg that are working together.  It could just be a group of people who are against Amber Heard, and they decide on another platform \u2014 whether it&#8217;s Switch or Discord or whatever \u2014 &#8216;we&#8217;re going to attack, let&#8217;s coordinate together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<aside class=\"hawk-nest\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\"\/>\n<p>It&#8217;s potentially understandable why Amber Heard might have believed she was the target of bots.  We&#8217;ve certainly seen <u>online campaigns use bots to various ends in the past<\/u>.  Bot Sentinel examined more than 14,000 tweets that used four different viral hashtags.  Nearly a quarter of the accounts were only created in the last seven months and a fifth of them were \u201cdedicated to spamming.\u201d  They are referred to as \u201ctoxic trolls\u201d in the report, so the end result here is largely the same that it would have been if they had been bots.<\/p>\n<p>The social media campaign against the actress took many forms, including a call for <u>Heard&#8217;s role in the upcoming <\/u><u><em>aquaman<\/em><\/u><u>  sequel to be recast<\/u>.  While that has n&#8217;t happened, during the trial it was revealed that each role in the sequel has been reduced from what it was in early drafts of the script.  Heard argued this was due to the campaign against her. <u>Warner Bros.  claims it was a result of a perceived lack of chemistry between Heard and co-star Jason Momoa<\/u>. <\/p>\n<p>We likely haven&#8217;t heard the end of Amber Heard and Johnny Depp quite yet, as <u>Heard&#8217;s legal team is currently appealing the verdict<\/u>.  This likely means that Amber Heard has not heard the end of social media attacks against her.  The fact that they&#8217;re not an army of boots is likely cold comfort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp legal battle is over, at least for now, but it&#8217;s clear that the defamation arguments are still very much on the mind of a lot of people. The lawsuits stirred up a lot of interest online, including a fair amount of harassment focused on Amber Heard. That harassment actually &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amber-heard-thought-she-was-being-trolled-by-bots-during-trial-with-johnny-depp-new-report-says-bots-werent-the-culprit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amber Heard Thought She Was Being Trolled By Bots During Trial With Johnny Depp.  New Report Says Bots Weren&#8217;t The Culprit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19073,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/anti-amber-heard-twitter-campaign-one-of-worst-cases-of-cyberbullying-report-says\/","url_meta":{"origin":19451,"position":0},"title":"Anti-Amber Heard Twitter Campaign One Of &#8216;Worst Cases Of Cyberbullying,&#8217; Report Says","date":"July 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Topline Tweets trolling Amber Heard and her supporters during and after her highly-publicized defamation trial against Johnny Depp resulted in \u201cone of the worst cases of cyberbullying and cyberstalking by a group of Twitter accounts\u201d according to a report released Monday from Bot Sentinel, an firm that studies disinformation campaigns\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10130,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/johnny-depp-was-willfully-defamed-by-amber-heard-says-her-insurance-company\/","url_meta":{"origin":19451,"position":1},"title":"Johnny Depp was &#8216;willfully&#8217; defamed by Amber Heard, says her insurance company","date":"July 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Johnny Depp's defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard ended in June. 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