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Group of AstroTurfing Accounts on LW (hackertalks.com)
submitted 3 days ago by jet@hackertalks.com to c/support@lemmy.world
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The following accounts appear to be astro-turf puppets, used for synchronized voting. Created about 2 years ago with no, or very low activity.

Original context: https://lemmy.world/comment/15594603

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[โ€“] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those five accounts were self-deleted within 2 hours of you making this post. Somebody noticed that you caught onto them.

I briefly looked into the remaining accounts you mentioned. Their voting patterns look very similar, but I'm not convinced they are colluding. It's easy to imagine multiple users having similar opinions.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 2 days ago

Thanks for checking it out!