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TWITTER TRENDING UPDATE
Update (11:30AM CET, June 9, 2021): A Twitter spokesperson told TNW: “ In our work to support the health of the public conversation we regularly monitor Trends and Search type-ahead suggestions to prevent content and/or behaviors that are against the Twitter Rules. “Broader media outlets report on trends, which are used as a proxy for what people are talking about, but unfortunately, it’s a manipulated proxy, distorting the public view of what conversations are actually going on.” “This manipulation has serious implications because we know that Twitter trends get attention,” said Overdorf. The company has acknowledged that the attacks do exist, but the researchers say the problem has still not been fixed. The team says they’ve twice notified Twitter about the issue. “This was then picked up by several news reports, other social media platforms, and in academic papers,” said study co-author Rebekah Overdorf in a statement. “In reality, it was completely fabricated.”
One of the manipulated hashtags that were artificially pushed to Trends was #SuriyelilerDefolsun (“Syrians get out.”) The attackers employed both bots and compromised accounts to generate the fake trends, which included phishing apps, disinformation campaigns, hate speech, and even marriage proposals. They found that these attacks accounted for at least 47% of local trends in Turkey and 20% of top 10 global trends analyzed during their study. The researchers inspected both Turkish local and global Twitter trends to investigate the impact of ephemeral astroturfing. However, despite the importance of the integrity of the list of trends, the algorithm does not check whether those tweets are still available or have been deleted. Join their discord for more informations on this Play and Earn game discord.gg/JFKtGndypF. Trends are refreshed every five minutes, taking as input tweets that have been published in some time interval. The Satoshiverse is a comic universe created by Jose Delbo and Apollo NFT Studios telling the story of Satoshi The Creator and his followers. The mechanism generates significant influence and potential revenue, which makes it an attractive target for adversaries seeking to manipulate users.Įphemeral astroturfing enables them to boost their messages by exploiting the design of the Twitter trends algorithm. Most Surprising, Wish I Could Have Seen, Seen the Most, Loudest Concert, The Beatles - Todays top Twitter trends and hashtags at United States. On Twitter, trending topics are determined by an algorithm that identifies subjects that are popular at a given moment. In this attack, a chosen keyword or topic is artificially promoted by coordinated and inauthentic activity to appear popular, and, crucially, this activity is removed as part of the attack.
The researchers call this new form of attack “ephemeral astroturfing:”
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