Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

  • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    40·
    1 year ago

    “The new verification system will prevent bot spam!” - Some rich guy who has no idea how the internet works

    Seriously, it’s been such a pain reading Chinese content on Twitter/X/whatever. If you post any stuff that says something critical about China, no matter if it’s news, opinions, or just shit posts, and have some amount of Chinese speaking followers, you are now guaranteed to have sex-bots spam commenting your every post. And you can’t do anything about it, since they have multiple accounts, and some just leave the comment and block you so you can’t remove it.

    Edit: grammar

    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
      11·
      1 year ago

      It’s going to be an even bigger mess if Elon goes through with getting rid of block and only leaving people with a mute. There won’t be any way to stop these porn bots.

    • HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There are a ton on twitter generally, more than 80 percent of my followers on a small account are obvious fake profiles/porn bots. But they don’t reply often, they mostly like.