THB Headlines: July 20

I’ve been chewing over this piece of journalism for a couple of days…

Exclusive: Fake Accounts Fueled the ‘Snyder Cut’ Online Army
A WarnerMedia report reveals that bots and other inauthentic users bolstered the fan-led campaign for director Zack Snyder’s Justice League do-over

Here’s the thing. Tatiana Siegel clearly did a huge amount of work on the piece. Most of it is factual. But the headline premise of the story… is weak. And the depth of the rest of the piece suggests an authority that the headline hasn’t earned.

“According to two reports commissioned by WarnerMedia and recently obtained by Rolling Stone, at least 13 percent of the accounts that took part in the conversation about the Snyder Cut were deemed fake, well above the three to five percent that cyber experts say they typically see on any trending topic.”

OY MY!!!! 13% instead of 5%!!!!

“That means a fandom amplified by fake accounts helped shake down a major studio — at an ultimate cost to Warner Bros. of more than $100 mi…