Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting Activitypub and Atproto
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A coordinated pro-Russian propaganda network has been identified targeting ActivityPub and ATProto services, highlighting vulnerabilities in decentralized social media platforms.
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Ideally we could have our own histories of what we've seen. Then get to go reflect back at when we've seen them, after they become known agents of a campaign.
In most online networks, society has no way to see and monitor and look at what's going on on the social network. I think it's such a boon that here there was the data for researchers to investigate and find. we are not so far from being able to try to repair and amend meddling retroactively, retrospectively.