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#dcBlackout was trending on Twitter last night. How do you explain that? There were _tons_ of accounts I saw (many with Korean/Chinese avatars, which were proba

#dcBlackout was trending on Twitter last night. How do you explain that? There were _tons_ of accounts I saw (many with Korean/Chinese avatars, which were probably fronts) that were spreading the same misinformation, often were a shrill tone of panic and conspiracy. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-dc-blackout-protests-idUSKBN2383OK https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-dc-blackout-pro... For the curious, this is called a Sybil attack.

thebean11 6y ago
Like I said, I'm not arguing that the foreign misinformation campaigns don't exist. I'm just skeptical that the protests and riots wouldn't be happening regardless.
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thrwaway69 6y ago
Boi the replies. https://twitter.com/DMVBlackLives/status/1267521033273323520?s=19 https://twitter.com/DMVBlackLives/status/1267521033273323520... https://twitter.com/VictoriaSanchez/status/1267437876519862272?s=19 https://twitter.com/VictoriaSanchez/status/12674378765198622... I am wondering if all those are bots or propaganda accounts. A sufficiently trained GPT2 model could tweet the same.
- mr_spothawk 6y ago
  was thinking maybe it was content targetted at a non-us audience. could see deploying bots in open disinfo op, tho.