Crackin' Under Fake Pressure

The Scoop: Bots and AI propelled Cracker Barrel backlash

Plus: Sinclair messages Kimmel’s return to airwaves; we’re heading for a government shutdown. You’ve doubtless heard of the backlash to Cracker Barrel’s bland, now-retracted logo that omitted its classic “old timer” character. It spurred outrage across social media, became a symbol of the culture war, tanked the stock price and caused an expensive rollback of not only the logo, but also the company’s remodeling campaign. Now, research shows that…

Crackin' under fake pressure

😡 Crackin’ under fake pressure: Remember the Cracker Barrel logo drama? Turns out half those boycott posts on social media were bots. New research says AI-generated accounts fueled a fake backlash, and the brand actually folded. Oh, Cracker Barrel, come for the biscuits, stay for the psyop. Next time you see rage-bait, remember the mob might not even be real.  The post Crackin’ under fake pressure appeared first on Komando.com.

Were Bots Able to Trick the Media into Covering the Story?

If the recent firestorm of online outrage directed at Cracker Barrel over a simple logo change felt disproportionate, new data suggests your instincts were correct. The controversy wasn't a grassroots consumer movement; it was a manufactured event, largely initiated and amplified by automated bot accounts that successfully dictated the news cycle.According to an analysis by intelligence platform PeakMetrics, the narrative was driven by non-human…