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Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say


Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

PeakMetrics grabbed a sample of 52,000 posts made on X within the first 24 hours of Cracker Barrel’s announcement that it would be modernizing its logo to an admittedly very plain and generic design. According to data collected by Open Measures, similar conversations were happening on the alt-tech platforms like Donald Trump’s Truth Social, Twitter knock-offs Gettr and Gab, 4chan, and Rumble. Over those platforms, posters regularly tied the Cracker Barrel logo change to terms like “woke” and “DEI,” because apparently, one of the demands of leftist extremists is conforming to sans-serif supremacy.

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