{"id":4692,"date":"2023-09-10T20:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T20:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/metamorphosis-of-a-fake-account"},"modified":"2023-09-10T20:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T20:21:30","slug":"metamorphosis-of-a-fake-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/metamorphosis-of-a-fake-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Metamorphosis of a fake account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>one day you&#8217;re a cryptocurrency spam account, the next day you&#8217;re tweeting about Ukraine with an artificially-generated face.Inauthentic social media accounts are sometimes created for one purpose and later renamed, purged of content, redecorated, and reused for other purposes. This can happen for a variety of reasons: in some cases, the original operator(s) of an account decide to give it a different mission, while on other occasions an account might change hands to due to being sold or compromised. One often runs across makeovers of this sort in the histories of popular inauthentic accounts. This article explores the case of a Twitter account which began its digital life as a cryptocurrency spambot and then morphed into a purveyor of pro-Russia\/anti-Ukraine propaganda with an AI-generated face.&lt;img src=&quot;https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1323c4bc-ef77-4816-89b4-7fe9bbaf8cb0_2413x1333.png&quot; width=&quot;1456&quot; height=&quot;804&quot; data-attrs=&quot;{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/1323c4bc-ef77-4816-89b4-7fe9bbaf8cb0_2413x1333.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:804,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:974911,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;collage of 12 tweets containing the text &quot;Requesting faucet funds into on the #Goerli #Ethereum test network via faucet.goerli.mudit.blog&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null}&#8221; class=&#8221;sizing-normal&#8221; alt=&#8221;collage of 12 tweets containing the text &quot;Requesting faucet funds into on the #Goerli #Ethereum test network via faucet.goerli.mudit.blog&quot;&#8221; title=&#8221;collage of 12 tweets containing the text &quot;Requesting faucet funds into on the #Goerli #Ethereum test network via faucet.goerli.mudit.blog&quot;&#8221; srcset=&#8221;https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1323c4bc-ef77-4816-89b4-7fe9bbaf8cb0_2413x1333.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1323c4bc-ef77-4816-89b4-7fe9bbaf8cb0_2413x1333.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1323c4bc-ef77-4816-89b4-7fe9bbaf8cb0_2413x1333.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1323c4bc-ef77-4816-89b4-7fe9bbaf8cb0_2413x1333.png 1456w&#8221; sizes=&#8221;100vw&#8221;&gt;nothing to see here, just a bunch of basically identical tweetsBack in June 2021, a network of newly-created Twitter accounts began spamming the phrase &#8220;Requesting faucet funds into &lt;address&gt; on the #Goerli #Ethereum test network via faucet.goerli.mudit.blog&#8221;. In the event that this sounds like incomprehensible gibberish to you, these tweets are basically requests to have small&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/conspirator0.substack.com\/p\/metamorphosis-of-a-fake-account\">Metamorphosis of a fake account<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one day you&#8217;re a cryptocurrency spam account, the next day you&#8217;re tweeting about Ukraine with an artificially-generated face.Inauthentic social media accounts are sometimes created for one purpose and later renamed,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[701,300,631,4432,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}