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@conspirator0

@conspirator0
11 posts
2026-02-22
In light of recent revelations that Archive(dot)today is involving its users in a DDOS attack, and altering archives to further a personal grudge, I am ceasing use of the site.  —  I also did three quick tests of alternatives for on-demand archiving, summarized below...  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...
2026-02-22 View on X
Ars Technica

English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed

The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct …

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2026-02-21
In light of recent revelations that Archive(dot)today is involving its users in a DDOS attack, and altering archives to further a personal grudge, I am ceasing use of the site.  —  I also did three quick tests of alternatives for on-demand archiving, summarized below...  arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...
2026-02-21 View on X
Ars Technica

English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed

The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct …

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2022-04-28
First, the followers are (probably) not bots. We found no evidence of widespread automation (or for that matter, astroturfing behaviors like coordinated retweeting that frequently get mistaken for bots). Twitter reached a similar conclusion: https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-28 View on X
The Verge

Study of 100 popular Twitter accounts: two days after Twitter accepted Elon Musk's bid, conservatives gained 17,229 followers on average and liberals lost 6,062

that's nearly 25 times its daily average of +550 new followers. https://twitter.com/... Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk : Lauren Boebert has gained more than 43,000 followers s...

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2021-10-14
Calling for journalists to be murdered is not “criticism” or “activism”. It's ironic that Glenn Greenwald, who claims to oppose censorship, makes an exception for those who censor journalists by intimidating them into silence via threats of violence. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-14 View on X
Variety

Facebook says it now counts activists and journalists as “involuntary” public figures to help protect them and will remove sexual content targeting celebrities

Todd Spangler / Variety : Source: About Facebook .

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2021-10-01
In context, this specific Blumenthal clip is less goofy than it first appears, but there've enough instances of members of Congress saying wildly incoherent things at tech hearing that I think the general point stands. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-01 View on X
TechCrunch

Senators grilled Facebook exec Antigone Davis at a hearing about Instagram's impact on teens and were frustrated by her reticence to answer questions directly

Last night, Facebook published two annotated slide decks in an attempt to contextualize the documents that the Wall Street Journal published … Source: Senate Commerce Committee .

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2021-07-13
Update: five of these six dubious verified accounts (along with the majority of the supporting botnet) have been suspended by Twitter. The sixth (@aykacmis) appears to have self-deactivated. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-13 View on X
The Daily Dot

Twitter confirms it inadvertently verified six “inauthentic” accounts, now suspended, after a user highlighted them

Six users with fake profile pics were seemingly verified less than one month after being created.  —  Questions have been raised over Twitter's verification process …

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These six newly-created verified accounts have 977 followers in common. One is @verified (which follows all blue-check verified accounts). The other 976 were all created on June 19th or June 20th, 2021, and all follow the same 190 accounts. #Astroturf https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-13 View on X
The Daily Dot

Twitter confirms it inadvertently verified six “inauthentic” accounts, now suspended, after a user highlighted them

Six users with fake profile pics were seemingly verified less than one month after being created.  —  Questions have been raised over Twitter's verification process …

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These 976 accounts are part of an astroturf botnet consisting of (at least) 1212 accounts. The network is split into followers, which follow the aforementioned verified accounts as well as other members of the botnet, and followees, which are followed by the other bots. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-13 View on X
The Daily Dot

Twitter confirms it inadvertently verified six “inauthentic” accounts, now suspended, after a user highlighted them

Six users with fake profile pics were seemingly verified less than one month after being created.  —  Questions have been raised over Twitter's verification process …

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Two of these six accounts (@kayitlii and @aykacti) have photographs of people as their profile pics. Despite the presence of the blue verification checkmark, neither image is likely to depict the account holder as both images appear to be stolen. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-13 View on X
The Daily Dot

Twitter confirms it inadvertently verified six “inauthentic” accounts, now suspended, after a user highlighted them

Six users with fake profile pics were seemingly verified less than one month after being created.  —  Questions have been raised over Twitter's verification process …

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Meet @aykacmis, @degismece, @anlamislar, @aykacti, @kayitlii, and @donmedim, a sextet of blue-check verified Twitter accounts created on June 16th, 2021. None has yet tweeted and all have roughly 1000 followers (and mostly the *same* followers). cc: @ZellaQuixote https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-13 View on X
The Daily Dot

Twitter confirms it inadvertently verified six “inauthentic” accounts, now suspended, after a user highlighted them

Six users with fake profile pics were seemingly verified less than one month after being created.  —  Questions have been raised over Twitter's verification process …

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2019-09-10
A variety of entities from LinkedIn to fake Twitter accounts that can't remember how many children they have seem to believe that analysis of public Internet posts is an invasion of privacy. Looks like the courts ain't havin' none of it. cc: @ZellaQuxiote https://arstechnica.com/...
2019-09-10 View on X
Reuters

Federal appeals court rejects LinkedIn's effort to stop hiQ Labs from scraping public profile data, reaffirming a ruling from August 2017

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :

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