Online Debate in Us Is Botted
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As soon as we launched our app on an online directory, we were overwhelmed by thousands of bots spamming “TRUMP2028”, followed by a DDoS attack.
Our app is a stupid fast 1v1 debate platform judged by AI called Debatable. We built it thinking of dialectic debating, but we were not expecting this. Thanks to AppCheck and Vercel AntiBot Firewall, the platform survived, but hundreds of users and debates had already been created.
It’s a wild first stress test. But how can US survive to this level of debate-contamination?
The launch of Debatable, an AI-judged 1v1 debate platform, was immediately hit with bot spam and a DDoS attack, raising concerns about the state of online debate in the US.
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