Fake Social
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Internet bot
12 min read
The article discusses bots accounting for traffic on X/Twitter. Understanding the technical and social dimensions of internet bots—how they work, their various purposes from benign automation to malicious manipulation—provides essential context for understanding platform transparency efforts.
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Twitter under Elon Musk
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The article references Elon Musk's 'beleaguered ex-Twitter' and a new transparency tool. This Wikipedia article documents the tumultuous history of X since the acquisition, providing crucial context about why such tools are notable and what challenges the platform has faced.
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State-sponsored Internet propaganda
13 min read
A country-of-origin transparency tool implies concerns about foreign influence operations. This topic explains how governments use social media for propaganda and disinformation campaigns, which is likely what the 'dynamite' revelation in the article exposed.
Fake Social
When X quietly rolled out its new country-of-origin transparency tool, it did not intend to detonate the ecosystem. It was rare high ground for Elon Musk’s beleaguered ex-Twitter, which seemingly recognized a need to ferret out the bots that increasingly account for traffic. But what it revealed was dynamite.
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