New Oscar Scandal: Did Zack Snyder win the Audience Award thanks to Bots?

Director Zack Snyder won two awards last March as a remake of the DC Comics film, Zack Snyder’s Justice League received the award for most famous section, and his horror film The Army of the Dead surprised everyone with an Oscar-winning triumph.

Voting was done with the hashtag # OscarsFanFavorite. The sculpture won the film that received the most votes.

Zack Snyder fans are very active on social media, as evidenced by the popularity of # RestoreTheSnyderVerse, which aims to push Warner Bros. to update the saga originally planned by the filmmaker.

Cheating on the Oscars?

But the site MoveToday it is clear that Zack Snyder would have won thanks to computer bots … the latter was really used to cast a mass vote in favor of the director’s films.

Based on the Tweet Binder analytics tracking tool, the site claims that the most active participants were actually web applications that received thousands of votes.

David Kirsch, a professor at the University of Maryland, said in a statement that “these reports”Do not look like they were created by humansHowever, the latter does not claim that all of these accounts are bots.

The filmmaker has not yet reacted and it is still unknown what decision the academy will make if these allegations are confirmed.