Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack”

Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by alexpetralia on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:06PM (#23385134)

#dcBlackout was trending on Twitter last night. How do you explain that? There were _tons_ of accounts I saw (many with Korean/Chinese avatars, which were probably fronts) that were spreading the same misinformation, often were a shrill tone of panic and conspiracy.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-dc-blackout-pro...

For the curious, this is called a Sybil attack.

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Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by thrwaway69 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:05AM (#23387650)

Boi the replies.

https://twitter.com/DMVBlackLives/status/1267521033273323520...

https://twitter.com/VictoriaSanchez/status/12674378765198622...

I am wondering if all those are bots or propaganda accounts. A sufficiently trained GPT2 model could tweet the same.

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Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by mr_spothawk on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @01:44AM (#23387891)

was thinking maybe it was content targetted at a non-us audience. could see deploying bots in open disinfo op, tho.

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Re:Analysing the alleged Minneapolis police department “hack” by thebean11 on Monday June 01, 2020 @07:15PM (#23385208)

Like I said, I'm not arguing that the foreign misinformation campaigns don't exist. I'm just skeptical that the protests and riots wouldn't be happening regardless.

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