The nine thousand dollar botnet

Conspirador Norteño

Jan 28

A network of over a thousand spammy X accounts with blue checkmarks is flooding selected posts with waves of extremely similar replies

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Aris’s Substack

Feb 1Liked by Conspirador Norteño

Great writeup, paisano. Did you find out which spam account was the most popular in terms of impressions and/or followers?

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