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Re:Boston Police use fake social media accounts to phish ind... by burningion on Friday March 29, 2013 @05:46PM (#5463201)
This is one of the larger, emerging problems with social media. Interested groups can create large amounts of dummy accounts to manipulate the group discussion. This is already happening on a large scale on reddit.

What we need is machine learning systems to help us identify the astroturfers who run dummy accounts to influence the group discussion.

The question is, who is going to build it?

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Re:Boston Police use fake social media accounts to phish ind... by victorh on Friday March 29, 2013 @11:25PM (#5464223)
Sorry mate, it would be about one billion times more profitable to write a machine learning system to astroturf group discussions.
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