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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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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...
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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.
But then you come across retweets of stuff like this: a post from the Mexican Green Party.

By Петр Смирнов and Игорь, apparently.
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#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. Image
Sequential handles. Identical bios. Identical tweets in identical order. Thousands of likes. Following the same number of accounts.

Bots. Image
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Wow, distinguished company. Look at some of the people a newborn, faceless account followed overnight. Image
The account was created yesterday. No posts, no likes, no avatar, and an eight-digit number after the name. Image
It seems to follow a mixture of analysts of Russian government propaganda and, well, Russian government propaganda. Image
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#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. Image
This isn't a one-off. They repeatedly post the same Salvini content at the same time. Image
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