A new study finds half of the negative tweets about Star Wars: The Last Jedi were "likely politically motivated or not even human." — Girl Geek X: Connecting forward-looking women in tech for over a decade!

According to a new paper at USC’s Center for the Digital Future, a large majority of the social media comments about the film were “deliberate, organized political influence measures disguised as fan arguments.” By analyzing tweets about the movie, they found a coordinated effort, similar to the one used in the lead-up to the 2016 election, to weaponize the debate about the movie to further the notion of chaos in American society.

A new study finds half of the negative tweets about Star Wars: The Last Jedi were “likely politically motivated or not even human.”