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Love, happiness, blessings, and spam

Conspirador Norteño • 30 implied HN points • 16 Mar 24

🕹 Technology Social media Artificial Intelligence Data Analysis Content creation Social media Data Analysis Fake Accounts

Spam accounts use repetitive and fake positive messages to amplify content, making it appear more popular than it actually is.
Researchers are now facing difficulties in mapping out spam account networks due to limitations in data access.
Spam network accounts use GAN-generated faces and peculiar vowels in account names, creating an association with suspended spam networks.

Tall tales and fake faces

Conspirador Norteño • 41 implied HN points • 04 Feb 24

🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Fake Accounts Social media Identity Verification Deception

Determining authenticity of social media accounts can be challenging, consider multiple indicators
Be cautious of accounts with suspicious and unrealistic personal anecdotes and connections
Watch out for inconsistencies in personal details shared by social media accounts

AI art and T-shirt spam

Conspirador Norteño • 22 implied HN points • 10 Dec 23

🕹 Technology AI Social media Digital Art Fake Accounts

Network of accounts use generative AI for AI art and T-shirt spam.
Accounts interact by reposting each other's content, mostly images.
Accounts in the network reply with links to websites selling T-shirts, targeting popular influencer accounts.

Do you want to be a news source? Just change your account name

Conspirador Norteño • 45 implied HN points • 03 Sep 23

📰 News Social media Fake Accounts Plagiarism

News accounts with many followers and a long creation date seem more credible.
Social media accounts can be easily renamed to create fake news sources.
Fake news accounts often repost content without doing actual reporting.

Crowdfunding and platform manipulation

Conspirador Norteño • 26 implied HN points • 04 Nov 23

🕹 Technology Social media Crowdfunding Manipulation Fake Accounts

Posts on social media linking to crowdfunding sites are often reposted by fake accounts.
Spam accounts use stolen photos and claim fake professions to promote crowdfunding.
Spam accounts show coordination by reposting similar fundraisers, along with high amounts of repetitive replies.

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The curious case of user one134500 and the most obvious reply spam ever

Conspirador Norteño • 63 implied HN points • 22 May 23

🕹 Technology Social media Cryptocurrency Spam Fake Accounts Online Security

A network of spam accounts flooded Twitter with repetitive replies containing login credentials for a suspicious website.
Over 13,000 active accounts in this spam network were created in March or April 2023 and only post replies.
Spam campaign targeted various accounts including Reuters, Elon Musk, and news organizations, with a high percentage of replies in English.