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29_29 ◴[] No.20740549[source]
I was recently in Beijing and noticed when posting on Instagram many bot accounts posting "Shame on Hong Kong" in Chinese.

This is a Facebook problem too. If you work at facebook please help!

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1. bertil ◴[] No.20740575[source]
Flag all the accounts that seem suspicious. The more signal, the easier for Threat Intelligence to identify them.
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2. 29_29 ◴[] No.20740616[source]
I did, but I feel like this could be solved with machine learning.
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3. alephnan ◴[] No.20740631[source]
Seems like flagging the accounts should, in theory, feed back as data points into their machine learning models?
4. jimbokun ◴[] No.20740696[source]
That is how supervised machine learning works. Give it know examples, and it extrapolates to identify other instances in new data.
5. lucb1e ◴[] No.20742135[source]
Flagging bot accounts does not strike me as something a computer would be able to do. If they notice that the machine learned to recognize keywords, they'll use different ones; if they notice it recognizes IP addresses, they'll use different ones; etc. It seems very similar to spam classification to me.