5 hours ago by cratermoon
"Instagram is actually pretty hostile to security researchers studying their platform. ... Which is unfortunate because Instagram is one of the platforms most useful to bad actors."
Hmm, perhaps those two facts are more related than Belotti's wording suggests.
4 hours ago by ren_engineer
this, social media platforms really have minimal incentive to ban bots until it starts hurting their bottom line.
3 hours ago by rbanffy
I liked to assume destabilising democracies would hurt their bottom line, but reality seems to be the opposite.
19 minutes ago by Nextgrid
It isn't until we have proper laws against that, and politicians themselves use these platforms to further their own agenda (if not spread outright misinformation) so it's unlikely to happen. Plus with the control that these platforms nowadays have on public discourse it's likely that any attempt at such a law will have public opinion swayed against it immediately.
2 hours ago by DaiPlusPlus
I wonder if their thought-process is "if we don't, someone else will". But the fact that Gab, Parlor, et al. haven't gotten significant traction, I think, is proof against that.
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3 hours ago by nfRfqX5n
kind of. it doesn't look good when all of the top comments on a famous person's posts are all bot spam.
3 hours ago by hattmall
Only if people recognize it as such though
4 hours ago by 1234nigger
Stupid horseshit from a dumb cunt. Go fuck yourself with your "white nationalism" fear-mongering and your Taylor Lorenz (another dumb cunt) links.
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