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Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news

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Re: Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news

#31

Good conceptual art should be like a PoC exploit for what people percieve as real. Either it prompts us to patch our beliefs with concrete experience, or we just accumulate intellectual debt that eventually makes us unable to grow, respond, or cope, and become utterly dependent on surrounding ourselves with people who preserve our fictions for us and we'll give them anything to just reassure us of the safety of our c…

Huh?

Re: Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news

#33

This is exactly everything wrong with the internet in one neat little package: * Polarized, politicized, incendiary topic? Check. * Unclear intentions? Check. * Media manipulation on a grand scale? Check. * Fake traffic to websites? Check. * Publishers scoring fraudulent clicks? Check (maybe) * Somehow, being awesome in spite of all of the above. Check.

It's climate change an incendiary topic for anyone anymore, who isn't already at the political fringes?

This is a serious question. Even the oil companies admit it's a problem now.

I'm aware that there is still some controversy over exactly what the climate change forecasts should be, but that's not the same thing.

Re: Synthetic Messenger: A botnet scheme for climate news

#34

This is bad. Publishers could get kicked off the ad networks as a result of this activity.

Sounds like a great way to demonetize any content I disagree with /s

There are randomware operations very similar to this

https://www.datto.com/blog/ransomware-attack-targeting-googl...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/pay-up-or-well-make-goog...

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