I wonder if this has anything to do with the SNP or is this just Iran regime promoting 'separatist movements' across the West instead of fixing problems at home, hence the Pubic getting sick of their shit?

Labour prefers to pay Americans to meddle in our Democracy via digital means, 'so much more civilised' I'm told, 'not even a crime at all...'

#EmilyThornberry #Iran #SNP #LizKendall #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #BotFarms #Labour #TechBros

New paper published!

Ever wondered how some seemingly well-functioning political systems can suddenly switch to a completely different behaviour?
Ever thought about the effect that the attention span of people towards news has on this?
Ever felt that the impact of indifferent people on the stability of the system may be stronger than that of committed persons?
Good! Here, we make a mathematical model that shows exactly this.

@benroyce I think you will find the last three paragraphs of the conclusions particularly interesting.

https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/xd9p-tvz1

#physics #mathematics #science #complexnetworks #complexity #complexsystems #politics #bifurcations #propaganda #botfarms

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Rasta/115751486503031026

I have been off #Mastodon quite a bit so changes really jump at me. Something that defo changed in the past 5 months is the number of #repost and #boost of actual #fakenews courtesy of #aislop #botfarms, here, from Vietnam. Please CHECK YOUR SOURCES or f***off because you are actively killing the #fediverse. Maybe it's intentional mind you. Thanks @billstatler for sharing the link https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/12/fact-check-karoline-leavitt-bio-read-live-on-msnbc-cher-other-celebrities.html (couldn't #quote you 😉).

Saturday, October 4, 2025

A risky situation: The critical state of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, explained -- Russian economy latest: Oil, gas September revenues down 25% from last year amid high budget deficit -- Ukrainian drones strike Russia's chemical giant over 1,700km from front lines -- Art after apocalypse — opera spurred by Russia’s ecocide in Ukraine to return to Kyiv ... and more

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/saturday-october-4-2025/

Reddit profile privacy feature enables bot farms to conceal spam operations: Reddit moderators report increased difficulties tracking bot accounts and spam after platform's introduction of profile privacy controls. https://ppc.land/reddit-profile-privacy-feature-enables-bot-farms-to-conceal-spam-operations/ #Reddit #Privacy #BotFarms #Spam #Moderators
Reddit profile privacy feature enables bot farms to conceal spam operations

Reddit moderators report increased difficulties tracking bot accounts and spam after platform's introduction of profile privacy controls.

PPC Land

I have a recent project to stop (LLM training) crawlers from copyright-thefting my website. I find these bots with either a hidden-link tarpit or by looking for single access events (no css), which I then ban if they come from a cloud server. So far I have learned:

• Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Chinese telecom companies are pretty easy to block. These were the early heavy hitters.
• Huawei has little cloud server farms all over the world. I seem to still find about one a day.
• Some mysterious entity rents servers all over the world and crawls by sniping one page at a time. The snipes come in clusters, so all these bots are running the same crawler, with some but not complete inter-communication. Popular cloud companies are OVH Cloud, EGI Hosting, Web2Objects, Host Royale, Digital Ocean, Cloud Innovation, ....

#apache #litespeed #htaccess #crawlers #botfarms

https://codeberg.org/skewray/htaccess

htaccess

Keeping AI companies from copyright-violating a website for LLM training is difficult, but not impossible. I got pretty far using Apache .htaccess.

Codeberg.org

Via #CultMTL

#PartiQuébécois leader #PaulStPierrePlamondon commented on the #disinformation trend on #Xitter, in post on the platform yesterday, drawing line between disinformation via hundreds of fake #X accounts in #Quebec, federal #ConservativeParty leader #PierrePoilievre using #BotFarms to generate praise for his rallies & a #Montreal co & Canadian influencers being caught by #US #DoJ after being paid by #Russia to publish pro-Conservative, pro-#Trump #propaganda.

https://cultmtl.com/2024/09/hundreds-of-fake-x-accounts-in-quebec-are-actively-misinforming-and-intimidating-the-public/

Hundreds of fake X accounts in Quebec are actively 'misinforming and intimidating' the public

Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon commented on hundreds of fake X accounts in Quebec and Pierre Poilievre using bot farms.

Cult MTL

INSANITY REIGNS as Press Continues Biden Attacks and Dems Question: WHAT NOW?! | #ResistanceLive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7HjQHcFp_o

Ignore the noise and stay the course. #BidenHarris2024 Fight back against the disinformation noise.

#PreemptiveObedience #MediaCritique #ConfirmationBias #Disinformation #ManufacturingConsent #BotFarms #AIElectionInterference #2024Election #Biden

INSANITY REIGNS as Press Continues Biden Attacks and Dems Question: WHAT NOW?! | #ResistanceLive

YouTube

EN: I'm dummy. I've just got why on his own platform this silly Elon is using bot farms with blue checks that forces with tweets. LOL

Source: https://twitter.com/med_goblin/status/1708693150997381460

#twitter #elonmusk #musk #x #botfarms #bot #bluecheck

medgoblin 💙 on X

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