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The presence of these bad actors has, if anything, only exacerbated the vitriol Heard has received within the mainstream.

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The work of those bots has been further amplified by “men’s rights activists” - the part of the far-right-leaning extremist “manosphere” that seems to have decided discrediting Amber Heard is the key to destroying every woman who accuses men of abuse or domestic violence.Ĭonservative media outlets have also promoted a one-sided narrative of the case Vice recently reported that Ben Shapiro’s popular conservative news platform the Daily Wire has spent nearly $50,000 promoting ads about the trial on Instagram and Facebook - most of it trashing Amber Heard. One researcher found more bots favorable to Heard, but said most of those bots were from third-party apps trying to capitalize on the trial meanwhile, they found the highest pro-Depp bot post was shared nearly 20,000 times. The narrative of the trial has been shaped in part by what appears to be, according to multiple researchers, an army of bots spreading rhetoric favorable to Depp. The media has covered the degree to which this trial has served as a referendum on the Me Too movement and a siren call to domestic abusers. Around the third or fourth time I logged into Twitter to find “#AmberHeardIsAPsychopath” at the top of the trending list, I realized that there was no longer any pretending that the Depp-Heard defamation trial was not a terrible, foreboding reflection of our culture’s worst impulses.

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