[HN Gopher] How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter ___________________________________________________________________ How to Be an Amateur Bot Hunter Author : mbellotti Score : 36 points Date : 2021-07-25 15:21 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (bellmar.medium.com) (TXT) w3m dump (bellmar.medium.com) | 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." | | 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. | [deleted] ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-26 23:00 UTC)