Mastodawn

I need your help.

The US midterm elections are under attack. On YouTube, I constantly encounter American AI generated political commentary channels that are picking up followers, and I am convinced the objective is to use these channels to disinform the public in the fall.

Please help by reporting this video as misinformation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P0EwPwF7jw

If you are not sure this is AI, notice the way it repeats the same few hand gesture multiple times throughout the video.

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Last few days there's a whole new style of quasi-identical Russian/Far-right bots here on Mastodon. This has been going on for ~1year, but this latest attack is quite intense. If you follow #EU / #Ukraine tags, you'll see them.

Clues =
• meaningless mixed letter name
• 0 to a few followers
• Lots of posts in a short time
• Many posts beginning / ending with ellipses (threads)
• Often posts are identical to those of other bots/accounts
• Seeing a lot in French language

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Chuck Mar 16

@gsymon

Additionally a common tell is that Russian bots equate Ukraine with being Nazi. But yeah, its a common thing. I hope that the Russians don't figure out a way to weaponize the Fediverse like they did other social networks.

@randahl

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Grant Mar 16

@ChuckMcManis @randahl

They may not manage to weaponise it, but they can still flood it, if we let them, at which point it's broken. Putin only knows how to break things, not build them.