The Business Financing publication, with the help of artificial intelligence identified the world’s most-loved and most-hated billionaires among Twitter users worldwide.
Analysts collected geo-tagged tweets mentioning the entrepreneurs. They then applied an algorithm that assessed the emotional valence of the posts.
The study’s list included:
- Bill Gates — founder of Microsoft;
- Elon Musk — founder of Tesla and SpaceX;
- Jeff Bezos — founder of Amazon;
- Sheryl Sandberg — former COO at Facebook;
- Richard Branson — founder of Virgin Group;
- Larry Page — co-founder of Google;
- Mark Zuckerberg — founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta;
- Sergey Brin — co-founder of Google;
- Donald Trump — businessman and showman, former U.S. president;
- Rupert Murdoch — media magnate;
- Warren Buffett — American investor and philanthropist;
- Steve Ballmer — former CEO of Microsoft;
- Larry Ellison — founder of Oracle;
- Michael Bloomberg — businessman and former mayor of New York;
- Mark Cuban — entrepreneur, investor and media magnate.
The world’s most-loved billionaire is Bill Gates. He is positively rated in 37 countries, while in three countries social-media users hold a negative view of Gates.
In Eastern Europe (specifically Poland, Russia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic) Elon Musk is the region’s most-loved billionaire. In the United States it is Richard Branson, in the United Kingdom Sergey Brin, and in China Bill Gates.
Americans love Musk the most — he is approved in 12 states. He is followed by Bezos (10 states) and Gates (seven states).
The anti-ranking is led by Donald Trump. According to AI, he is “hated” in 84 countries, including the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, China, the United States, Ukraine and South Africa. Russians, in turn, dislike Jeff Bezos.
In the United States, Trump is disliked in 43 states, Murdoch in six, and Cuban in one.
Earlier in April 2021, researchers developed an AI algorithm that detects conspiracy theories in users’ tweets.
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