Facebook is building a hidden, bot-only platform to learn about trolls and scammers | The Verge | Adi Robertson, on Apr 15, 2020
▻https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/15/21221992/facebook-wes-simulation-research-paper-bots-scammers-new-feature
Facebook calls its system WW, which Protocol plausibly pegs as an abbreviation for “WES World.” [Web Enabled Simulation]. But as that sentence makes clear, Facebook isn’t building Westworld here at all. It’s making a simulacron: a world of artificial personality units designed to teach us more about ourselves.