ShoqThis has been my Threads interface for past 2 hours. Occasionally 1 column will renderer. Not anymore. Is this happening to you?
Sheldon@shoq I think it's the Activity column that's crapping things out. It's fine with just 2 columns, but I can't get anything under Activity even on its own page.
@sysop408 Not me, I get only likes in the for you column, and nothing anywhere else. Obviously it’s a them problem. thanks Sheldon! Love select the perfect frame and you’ll have your framed frame delivered and ready to head download the free Keepsake frames app and start framing today
Nona #DarkGranny@shoq I've noticed some interesting behavior on the #Meta platform today. I suspect they're trying to do something about the avalanche of bot spam and fraud that's been going on. I had to randomly verify an email on one account in Facebook and then on Instagram I got warned that my account was being flagged for automated activity.
I just finished promoting a car show on that platform. I have never seen such an insane volume of bot spam in my life.
Some people are going to point the finger at #AI. I'm not so sure if #Facebook gets off that easily. I got many hundreds of the same 4 or 5 messages over and over again for weeks in a row with the exact same grammatical errors. It's ridiculous they have no way to even slow down this crap when so much of it is nothing sophisticated.
Anyone who posted in my event got swamped by bots. The bots were also swamping their own scam messages with more scam posts.
Good job Meta. 👏
Hugh (he/him) 
@mobilehugh I have to imagine reporting isn't doing a whole lot of good these days. It's so patently obvious that these are inauthentic accounts... though some of them show signs that they may have once been a real account.
I've actually had a customer fall for one of the scams. He got offered cheap tickets to one of our events and they asked him to pay by buying Amazon gift cards. He thought it was weird, but did it anyway.
It was only a minute after he sent the codes that he came to his senses and realized something was not right. He immediately tried to redeem the gift card himself for his own account, but it was already claimed in that blink of time.
I had to spend quite a bit of time deleting all the scam posts for our car show because some of the people who enter car shows are the exact demographic that might fall for them. Several times, I found people trying to have a comment conversation with one of the bots.
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