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Sep 24, 2026
Joel ThomasHOST
I mean, Facebook is still huge.
Joel ThomasHOST
It's hasn't, hasn't gone away, and I believe that it was absolutely used to data mine us, and this moves me into this second part of this, where we're talking about bot usage, right? How does this connect to the dead internet theory? And we have to talk about the connections from In-Q-Tel, and we'll talk about narrative science here, which is super interesting.
Joel ThomasHOST
So before we jump to that, though, Imperva, it was an American cybersecurity software and services company.
Joel ThomasHOST
Now, they did back in twenty thirteen- They did an assessment, and they said back in 2013 that 61.5% of web traffic was bots.
Joel ThomasHOST
That's back in 2013.
Joel ThomasHOST
But prior to that, to get to that point, Narrative Science, it's very interesting.
Joel ThomasHOST
Now, they were the first company, and they were founded in 2010, and it was all...
Joel ThomasHOST
And this is hilarious.
Joel ThomasGUEST
And I believe that it was absolutely used to data mine us.
Joel ThomasGUEST
And this moves me into this second part of this, where we're talking about bot usage, right? How does this connect to the dead internet theory? And we have to talk about the connections between from In-Q-Tel and we'll talk about narrative science here, which is super interesting.
Joel ThomasGUEST
So before we jump to that though, Imperva, it was an American cybersecurity software and services company.
Joel ThomasGUEST
Now they did back in 2013, they did an assessment and they said back in 2013 that 61.5% of web traffic was bots.
Joel ThomasGUEST
That's back in 2013.
Joel ThomasGUEST
But prior to that, to get to that point, narrative science, it's very interesting.
Joel ThomasGUEST
Now they were, The first company, and they were founded in 2010, and it was all, this is hilarious now, we're just talking about garage companies, and it was a student project at the Intelligent Information Lab at Northwestern University, and they jump-started NLG technology, so Natural Language Generation Technology, right? And they created this project called StatsMonkey.
Joel ThomasGUEST
Now, StatsMonkey, was used to create articles from sports.