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Re:Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks by mikewarot on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:30PM (#47508728)
I'm not sure if this is parody or not, but someone admitted to it. These days it wouldn't surprise me if it were this brazen.

https://x.com/gothburz/status/2036413487530831899

Re:Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks by chatmasta on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:55PM (#47509133)
That’s a parody account. I mean this in the nicest way possible, but if you cannot tell this is parody within the first two sentences then you should be very careful when reading twitter. This is a common format and other accounts are far more pernicious. My feed in the morning often starts with a dozen parodies or outright falsehoods with no community note.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they “let” it happen by optimizing for double clickthrough engagement produced by the inevitable “grok is this true?” at the top of every thread.

The worst part is that the only way to develop immunity to, and pattern recognition for, these parody accounts is to subject yourself to them repeatedly. So the people who can recognize the fake tweets the quickest are also the people who read them the most. And there are plenty who never develop the pattern recognition…

It’s definitely some form of social infection.

Re:Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks by some_random on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:35PM (#47510492)
People who make 1.5 billion USD trades do not brag about it on twitter.
Re:Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks by teachrdan on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:53PM (#47510692)
Someone on Twitter bragged about buying it for $54.20 a share.
Re:Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks by slg on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @05:08PM (#47509337)
Poe’s Law meets The Big Short’s convergence of confessing and bragging[1]. It adds up to being completely opaque in terms of veracity and intent, but either way it highlights the real problem at the center of this story.

[1] - https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ut4C64FKfqc

Re:Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks by aftbit on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:38PM (#47508850)
That reads like it was generated by Claude. Seems like parody but I dunno.
Re:Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks by kulahan on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @05:05PM (#47509298)
Yeah, the entire thing strikes me as AI-generated. Something about the cadence of the text makes it clear for me?
Re:Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks by bz_bz_bz on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:40PM (#47508895)
Clearly a parody account...
Re:Major insider trading on oil detected ahead of Iran talks by refurb on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @07:15AM (#47515827)
That’s AI.

I thought people knew not to believe anything they read online?