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Re:I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers,... by jchb on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @08:33PM (#24783446)
What about building a service, perhaps a web browser plugin, that overlays a trust-worthiness score + contextual information, over text (bonus for images) on the web?

If a user posts "I recommend product X", the overlay would say "Caution: This user also recommended the product Y,Z in the last 48 hours. 34/34 of the users post in the last month are product recommendations. Sentiment score for users posts: 100% positive. The following internet accounts are likely controlled by the same individual or organization: ..."

Is it feasible? Does it already exist?

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Re:I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers,... by sjg007 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @08:54PM (#24783561)
Somewhat feasible. You really need distributed fact checking to scale up especially since you don’t have source ips. If you can do that you might have something if you can keep participation up.
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Re:I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers,... by noizejoy on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:46PM (#24784339)
Do source ips still help at all? These days it seems to be rather easy to visit a website from numerous different source ips.
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Re:I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers,... by dang on Thursday October 15, 2020 @01:41AM (#24785256)
I wish they still helped more, but they do still help.
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Re:I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers,... by Pokepokalypse on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:31PM (#24784234)
and never forget: the black hats will never stop trying to game any system you try to come up with. At this point in time, I think it's pretty clear they have a strong upper-hand.
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Re:I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers,... by jimbomorrison on Thursday October 15, 2020 @07:53AM (#24787596)
Super interesting. We're working on something similar within the news ecosystem.

See https://onesub.io/chrome for the extension (and https://onesub.io/mission for our wider mission)..

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Re:I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers,... by MichaelZuo on Thursday October 15, 2020 @08:47AM (#24788014)
A distributed trust network is feasible given sufficient critical mass. I’m looking into the best way to bootstrap it.
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Re:I found black-hat content marketers: sockpuppet bloggers,... by the__alchemist on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @10:13PM (#24784100)
I'm working on something like that.
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