Spam in the firehose, part II
we are totally real people who happen to have identical photographsA recent article on this blog discussed multiple groups of accounts identified by scanning the Bluesky firehose for repeated biographies,…
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Spam in the firehose
not a literal depiction of the Bluesky firehoseEvery public action on social media platform Bluesky is published via a stream of events known as the Bluesky firehose. This can be…
Google Messages update aims to protect you from spam and scams
Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on…
The cryptocurrency spam treadmill
meet the new crypto spam, same as the old crypto spamUnless you spend too much time online, you almost certainly missed it, but $ORM trended briefly on X the other…
Perplexity Is Already "Citing" Error-Filled AI-Generated Spam
Not-So-Reliable Sources New reporting from Forbes reveals that Perplexity, the buzzy and heavily-funded AI search tool mired in plagiarism and secretive web-scraping allegations, is citing low-quality AI-generated spam from sketchy…
The $20,000 spam account
there are better things to spend money on than used social media accounts, such as basically everythingIf you have an extra twenty thousand dollars lying around that you just can’t…
Federation and political spam
no, not THAT kind of federationOn May 11th, 2024, a flurry of repetitive posts with the text “remember to always vote trump” began to appear on social media platform Bluesky.…
Pluralistic: Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands (03 May 2024)
Today’s links Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands: “Site reputation abuse” goes beyond third party content farms. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day…
All the news that's fit to spam
there’s a “news” account for everythingAs the Bluesky social media platform’s population grows, so too does the platform’s value as a target for various types of spam, manipulation, and shenanigans.…
Love, happiness, blessings, and spam
unfortunately for Samsung Mobile, the happiness is entirely inauthenticSocial media ads are generally greeted with more annoyance than enthusiasm even in the best of times, and it is therefore quite…