[HN Gopher] How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter
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       How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter
        
       Author : mbellotti
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-07-25 15:21 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | 1234nigger wrote:
       | Stupid horseshit from a dumb cunt. Go fuck yourself with your
       | "white nationalism" fear-mongering and your Taylor Lorenz
       | (another dumb cunt) links.
        
       | cratermoon wrote:
       | "Instagram is actually pretty hostile to security researchers
       | studying their platform. ... Which is unfortunate because
       | Instagram is one of the platforms most useful to bad actors."
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       | Hmm, perhaps those two facts are more related than Belotti's
       | wording suggests.
        
         | ren_engineer wrote:
         | this, social media platforms really have minimal incentive to
         | ban bots until it starts hurting their bottom line.
        
           | rbanffy wrote:
           | I liked to assume destabilising democracies would hurt their
           | bottom line, but reality seems to be the opposite.
        
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