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Wasn't there something about DHS's account originating in Israel? Suprised it's not being discussed here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/millenials/comments/1p4i95z/the_off...
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Such groups certainly have the resources to use residential proxies to fool such checks.
Just like all things, the easier you make it the more people will abuse it. Now their hand is forced, and they will actually have to try and mask their location.
I do not use twitter, so do not care. But if you use a fake name and fake email, which people should be using on twitter, who cares. Also if you self host your VPN, how would twitter know. Looks like only people using a commercial VPN will be flagged.
This is a good thing. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidenta... ”Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We Th…
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Companies requiring that you use potentially poor privacy and security protocols isn't a good thing. Using a VPN doesn't make one a bot or a spammer.
They aren’t requiring it though - they are just noting it on your profile. That seems like a very reasonable approach that lets the reader decide how much it matters.
This is a good thing. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidenta... ”Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We Th…
Such groups certainly have the resources to use residential proxies to fool such checks.
We should criticize their content tho, not form, shape or location.
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Whatever right to privacy that may exist goes out the window when you’re posting on the World Wide Web.
On the contrary, the World Wide Web is anonymous by the default. The only reason we constantly need to login into places is because big corps want to have walls around their data... and full visibility on what we do online so they can sell it for a lot of money.
I do not use twitter, so do not care. But if you use a fake name and fake email, which people should be using on twitter, who cares. Also if you self host your VPN, how would twitter know. Looks like only people using a commercial VPN will be flagged.
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I just pointed to evidence this was happening several years before Elon had anything to do with Twitter takeover, all the way back when Obama was still in office.
The fact that it existed in some nonzero quantity at some point before the choreographed Musk takeover does not contradict what I wrote in any way.
This is a good thing. Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidenta... ”Dozens of major accounts masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as Russia, India, and Nigeria. In one example, the account MAGANationX—with nearly 400,000 followers and a bio reading “Patriot Voice for We Th…
We've known this is a thing for quite some while. The Russians have been running a bunch of these propaganda accounts at least as far back as the 2016 election (see the Mueller report).
2013 for the Internet Research Agency, but likely before for other organisations.