The Russian botnet has now created over 2,500 inauthentic accounts on 180 Mastodon servers. These accounts spam propaganda, follow each other to increase federation, connect to Bluesky via the bridge to spread their content there, and create unlimited invite links for their bots to follow.
IFTAS reports each one we find, and to date roughly 60% of these accounts have been suspended.
Our AUD denylist would silence or suspend the bulk of the remaining 40% of accounts.
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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
Unknown parent • • •@azeuzexa lol. Banning fake bot accounts is “political censorship”?
Shut up Vlad.
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in reply to IFTAS • • •Coordinated botnets don't sleep, and neither can our Trust & Safety infrastructure.
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Unknown parent • • •I'm curious if @iftas@mastodon.iftas.org uses #AI in their #surveillance for the users
Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)
Unknown parent • • •@azeuzexa
#BotOrNot certainly looks like a bot when your pending follow requests are also all from bots!
IFTAS
in reply to IFTAS • • •Total 2562
% Mitigated 59.21%
% DNI or AUD 35.60%
% Pending 4.06%
% False Positive 0.55%
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in reply to IFTAS • •You should be on that list.
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