Achtung:
mastodon.social wird aktuell überflutet von #BotAccounts. Sollten in meiner Instanz (tyrol.social) jemand von einem Bot Account belästigt worden sein, dann bitte diesen umgehend melden, damit wir die Accounts sperren können.

eicker.news #technews »#AISpam Is Already #Flooding the #Internet and It Has an Obvious Tell: The phrase '#asanAIlanguagemodel' is starting to flood #Amazon #userreviews and #Twitter #botaccounts.« https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d9bvn/ai-spam-is-already-flooding-the-internet-and-it-has-an-obvious-tell

@alcea @stux is why #groups are a good idea. @atomicpoet mentioned it first, I think.

It allows for moderation as well as users being associated with groups and topics. People can be banned and blocked. Also by mentioning #botaccounts and connecting your posts in that manner allows for other fun things.

New analysis of Kremlin linked social influence bot networks during the 2016 U.S. presidential election finds "2,752 bot accounts masqueraded as gun-owning housewives, Black Lives Matter activists, obsolete news companies and more."

Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/zh94q/

#BotAccounts
#Sociology
#Twitter

But after 10 minutes of googling, Gutterman Tranen concluded that Robert Honeyman’s photo was a stock image and their biography stretched boundaries of believability: an academic who left no traces on academic websites and had lost two family members to #Covid in late 2022, despite masking and distancing.
https://sfstandard.com/technology/these-doctors-pushed-masking-covid-lockdowns-on-twitter-turns-out-they-dont-exist/
#botaccounts

Can we please make it easier for users to filter out #botaccounts when searching a person's name or displaying one's list of followers? The large number of bot accounts or entire instances dedicated to them (like respublicae.eu) are becoming problematic. Try searching for Ursula von der Leyen, for instance. Thank you so much. My best holiday wishes.
@Mastodon@mastodon.social @Mastodon@mstdn.social
@Gargron

More on my previous post on #botaccounts. Try doing a search for Ursula von der Leyen. There are six accounts. All #bots. 5 are marked as bots. Then there is her #respublicae account, which is also a bot, yet it is not marked as such, so you can't even filter, because it is a #mirror.
@praetor

SEC Probes Twitter Over Spam Accounts — Court Orders the Social Media Giant to Provide Additional Data to Elon Musk

https://news.bitcoin.com/sec-probes-twitter-over-spam-accounts-court-orders-the-social-media-giant-to-provide-additional-data-to-elon-musk/

#elonmuskbuystwitter #Elonmusklawsuit #elonmusktwitter #twitterlawsuit #botaccounts #elonmusksec #twitterbots #twitterSEC #Featured #ElonMusk

Wie blockiert man denn die ollen #botaccounts?