Bard spotting on Bluesky 02 March 2025

Kevin Morris (@kevintmorris.bsky.social):

I do think this is an important point. You should be careful about what information sources you're inviting into your feed

Auntie Wow (@absolutereality.blog):

you could always take one for the team and tell them that uncritically following 10,000+ accounts leaves them open for manipulation by disinfo campaigns!

Auntie Wow (@absolutereality.blog):

This thread by @rahaeli.bsky.social explains why uncritically following thousands of unknown accounts is a mis/disinfo vector for political and foreign chaos agents, but you don't have to take our word for it - here's a peer-reviewed research paper.

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):

This paper is an example of the kind of things I mean: these accounts all established themselves with follow-farming. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 5/

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):

I built an account that could not more obviously show EVERY SIGN of being a Russian disinformation op down to only allowing myself to log into the account between 9am and 5pm Moscow standard time and it got 10k followers in 4 days

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

You forgot to never log in before noon Moscow time on Sundays. "All goodboys go to church", or the equivalent Russian idiom

rahaeli (@rahaeli.bsky.social):

Oh, comrade only works Monday through Friday. Which is annoying because it means I missed a prime window for one specific tag. Heh.