It's a great day to look at a network of mutually interacting Twitter accounts that use TweetDeck to amplify one another's content, most (but not all) of which is Florida-related. #FloridaSpam
Much of the network's content consists of brief tweetstorms where several of the accounts in the network tweet or retweet the same thing a few seconds or minutes apart. Overall, approximately 70% of the network's tweets/retweets were duplicated by at least 3 of the 7 accounts.
Who do the accounts in this network retweet/quote tweet/reply to? A mix of popular Florida accounts, major media, and each other: six of the 20 accounts most frequently amplified by the network are other accounts in the network, with @PublicGood2050 at the top of the list.
The accounts in this network link various Florida websites, mainstream media, YouTube videos, and Substack blogs. Among the Substack bloggers promoted by the network is conspiracy theorist and cyberstalker Steven Jarvis, who recently planted a false story at @thedailybeast.
More on the recent debacle where The Daily Beast's @JakeLahut published an as-of-yet unretracted article based on the demonstrably false claims of a known hoaxer and cyberstalker:
Popular chatbot ChatGPT will sometimes return error messages when asked to produce offensive content. If you're a spam network operator who uses ChatGPT to generate spam and you're not paying attention, these messages will show up in the spam you generate.
This spam network consists of (at least) 59645 Twitter accounts, mostly created between 2010 and 2016. All of their recent tweets were sent via the Twitter Web App. Some accounts have old unrelated tweets followed by a multi-year gap, which suggests they were hijacked/purchased.
Although most of this network's tweets are (superficially) unique, there are some exact duplicates, which fall into two categories:
If you're someone with integrity at @thedailybeast, this is a good time to give the public a look at what's going on behind the scenes and why an article containing demonstrable falsehoods and harassment from a known cyberstalker is still on your website.
Given the amount of time that has passed, the degree of pushback, and the repeated debunking of the article's primary source and elements, there is no scenario in which this is innocent. Someone at The Daily Beast is 100% aware the article is false and is keeping it up anyway.
This isn't going away, and the damage to the reputations of The Daily Beast and everyone associated with it grows harder to reverse with each passing moment. In life, there are bells you don't unring, and platforming an abusive cyberstalker is one of them.
The author of this article, @JakeLahut, did not reach out to me before publishing false claims that I participate in "online harassment campaigns". If he had, I would have told him the claims were lies that originated with a pair of pathological liars.
The claim at the beginning of this article about an "altered image" of cyberstalker Steven Jarvis's child is also a lie. The image in question was a GAN-generated face taken from ThisPersonDoesNotExist, and was not an "altered image" of any actual human.
On April 3rd, 2023, the logo on the web version of Twitter was changed from the traditional blue bird to a Shiba Inu dog (the dogecoin logo). It didn't take long for crypto spammers to embrace this change.
The quote tweets in the screenshot in the previous tweet are from a network of 32 accounts created on March 23rd and March 24th, 2023. All have account names ending in 5 digits. Their activity is concentrated in brief bursts where they all tweet within a few hours of each other.
The network's earliest tweets (sent via Twitter for Android) are all photographs of people with no accompanying text. Google Image Search reveals that these photographs are plagiarized, as are the accounts' profile images.
These spammy Twitter accounts have all heard this trend reverses as you get old and you start to remember more of the good things and let go of the cringe, and are happy to tell you so via identically-worded tweets.
These accounts are part of a network of 47 accounts created over the span of three hours on December 19th, 2022. Their names are composed of digits and lowercase letters; most contain fragments of common English first names. Thus far, they tweet mostly via the Twitter Web App.
This network's content is a mix of tweets, retweets, and replies. The tweets are repetitive, with multiple accounts tweeting the same text, and appear to be plagiarized from popular accounts.
Here's a look at a spam network that posts image tweets with identical text containing the hashtag #Accelerationism. This network's interests include the "Need for Speed" video game franchise and widespread power grid failures.
This network consists of 39 accounts created between January 2022 and March 2023 that tweet exclusively via the Twitter Web App. Their content is a mix of tweets, replies, and retweets. (Most of the retweets are of popular news and sports accounts.)
Most of this network's content is repetitive tweets containing the hashtag #Accelerationism. The repetitive tweets are generally on one of two topics:
• the "Need for Speed" video game franchise
• failures of the U.S. power grid (particularly in California)