The fake Twitter account of “Marina Ovsyannikova”

Re:The fake Twitter account of “Marina Ovsyannikova” by amalfra on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:07PM (#30687897)

Social media and Twitter is general is filled with fake accounts and trends. It's almost like bombarded with fake accounts these days. This is the case at least here in India.

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Re:The fake Twitter account of “Marina Ovsyannikova” by WallyFunk on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:32PM (#30688243)

Twitter has been compromised by a Sybil attack[0] many times. They tried to stop people registering sockpuppet accounts en masse by forcing phone verification, but phone numbers are trivial to acquire with things like Twilio and other services, so it's a minor hiccup for the troll farm operators.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

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Re:The fake Twitter account of “Marina Ovsyannikova” by skinnymuch on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @01:33PM (#30688272)

I thought it was relatively easy to block off VoIP numbers.

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