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Thread: The funniest thing about that network of blue-haired pornbots which has been going around for a while?
The way they quote Jane Austen.
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The way they quote Jane Austen.
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This is the first one I found. Oddly, it was being followed by @StoppingWW3, which was Ian56789's backup account at the time. 
Reverse search the profile picture, and see how many more accounts use the same one.
Talk about mass production...
Talk about mass production...
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H/t @josh_emerson for the initial tip on this one: an apparently Russian commercial botnet boosting political messages in Mexico.
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H/t @josh_emerson for the initial tip on this one: an apparently Russian commercial botnet boosting political messages in Mexico.
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There have been claims already of Russian bots interfering in the Mexican election.
Most of the scans we've run haven't shown anything of the sort.
Always important to remember: not all bots are Russian. And even genuine Russian bots aren't always there for interference.
Most of the scans we've run haven't shown anything of the sort.
Always important to remember: not all bots are Russian. And even genuine Russian bots aren't always there for interference.
But then you come across retweets of stuff like this: a post from the Mexican Green Party.
By Петр Смирнов and Игорь, apparently.
By Петр Смирнов and Игорь, apparently.
#BotSpot: after Twitter changed its ToS, bot creators are still making new botnets. But it's a precarious existence.
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Meet one short-lived botnet, with a Japanese focus. Its handles started with @kurikairiku51 and went up sequentially to @kurikairiku100.
Sequential handles. Identical bios. Identical tweets in identical order. Thousands of likes. Following the same number of accounts.
Bots.
Bots.
Wow, distinguished company. Look at some of the people a newborn, faceless account followed overnight.
The account was created yesterday. No posts, no likes, no avatar, and an eight-digit number after the name.
It seems to follow a mixture of analysts of Russian government propaganda and, well, Russian government propaganda.
#BotSpot thread: self-made bots in Italy (h/t @DavidPuente for the initial spot). Meet the selfbots. medium.com/dfrlab/electio…
This week, this batch of accounts was posting about Lega leader Matteo Salvini in eerie unison. Just over 150 of them.
This isn't a one-off. They repeatedly post the same Salvini content at the same time.
