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February 2025

The red-to-blue disinformation pipeline
How the lies of an obscure Republican blogger were used by a Democratic congressional candidate and a national media outlet to falsely paint random…
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These politically enthusiastic supplement fans do not exist
In which a group of fake Bluesky accounts masquerading as liberals promotes an ad for weight loss supplements from an account with an AI-generated face
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Spam in the firehose, part III
Adventures of a low effort fake follower network
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Antisocial media
The emotionally manipulative side of the Facebook AI slop treadmill
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January 2025

The $94,900 X account
Paying almost six figures for a used social media account is unlikely to work out well
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Selling followers where the skies are blue
Sketchy follower sales sites are (unsurprisingly) expanding to Bluesky
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Finding fake followers (Bluesky edition)
A few techniques for detecting inauthentic follower growth on Bluesky
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These Dodgers employees do not exist
In which a group of fake Facebook accounts masquerades as Los Angeles Dodgers staff members for no apparent reason
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These defenders of democracy do not exist
In which inauthentic Bluesky accounts posing as liberal activists and organizations use AI-generated reply spam and mass following to attempt to build…
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