Note that all the bots have paid Twitter accounts, something that the owner said couldn’t possibly happen when he introduced paid verification.

MBmonicabyrne13.bsky.socialAug 14, 2024 7:28am

Just a reminder that Neil Gaiman’s hired PR firm, Edendale Strategies, is likely flooding social media with AI bots to drown out the fact that seven women have now come forward about his decades-long pattern of coercion and SA. Don’t let them control the conversation. Keep talking about it.

Absolutely disgusting, both the nature of the allegations and his response. He’s an undoubtedly talented writer whose work I’ve enjoyed (unlike Russell Brand, for example, whose act I always loathed). However, his work doesn’t in any way mitigate his utterly vile, arrogant and predatory behaviour.

What’s the point of these bots for a pr strategy? Just to swamp out discussion?