FYI I have a detailed guide for paid subscribers of this.weekinsecurity.com about why ad-blockers are a top tool in your online security and privacy defenses, how they work, and which ones are some of the best to use.

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Unlike many of the state-sponsored influence operations, Storm-1516 operators rely primarily on an international network of real collaborators to publish and promote their narratives, in opposition to a more traditional approach of employing own network of bot accounts

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We can just post charts with no source now and get a load of engagement, very healthy for the state of discourse. Oh, and a bunch of Fauci's diaries were released on Oct 7th, which is a more likely explanation than this engagement farming garbage.

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New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

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NEW: I wrote about why so many people wanted to believe that Ukrainian airstrikes on a Russian data center reduced troll and bot activity online, even though it's almost certainly not true. Featuring @noupside.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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