More Evidence of Entertainment Industry BotNet
Added 2024-02-22 23:20:05 +0000 UTCWe've been covering the investigation into a vast system of synthetic social media accounts used to manipulate online discourse and algorithms in favor of corporate messaging. Now, we have more information regarding this that I think readers of this Patreon might very much enjoy. Please note that this is outside of my normal expertise, but we are running all of this through folks who have high knowledge of how it all works.
The following message comes from a reader who I think is helping fill in important gaps. If this is an area where YOU also might have knowledge, we'd love to hear from you!
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I'll get right to the point. In your (now first, as I see another in my feed) video about Disney and bots you expressed openly and honestly your lack of context for what this information might mean. I believe I can rapidly provide that context. About a year ago, the journalist from the channel Upper Echelon (formerly Upper Echelon Gaming) did a pair of videos where he outlined how engagement is faked across social media at industrial scale and a follow up where he stumbled upon a massive botnet. The pair of videos takes less than 40 minutes total to watch but provides clear, concise evidence, information, and proof of concepts that I believe would be invaluable for you and your team to have at hand going forward. The links are below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hWYiDjYi88
Everyone You See Online... is FAKE
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There was another video sent by this reader that I greatly enjoyed, but it strayed into politics, and I purposefully choose to avoid that arena if at all possible. It's not out of fear but simply because there are plenty of people covering politics and I'm not sure my voice is needed in that area. For now, I feel called to cover culture, entertainment and the philosophies that undergird them.
Be well, everyone... and hopefully tomorrow won't have anymore widespread global internet issues. Those worry me in ways that I have not yet expressed here or anywhere else.
Your pal,
Pro
Comments
Did you see the articles about IS00N in China? They perform exactly this service for the ministries of internal security for China. I doubt this is them. But they’re just one of dozens of semi private firms that provide these kinds of services. Amusingly an FBI email access going rate is about 150000 RMB. That’s shockingly affordable! MSN reference https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/chinas-hacking-and-spying-revealed-in-bombshell-leak/ar-BB1iHlwr
Elijah Snow
2024-02-23 03:16:24 +0000 UTC
