Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.

  • DosCommas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    They are all over LinkedIn with really obvious fake profiles. LinkedIn is doing nothing to stop it.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        It may as well shut their doors in my opinion. No amount of changes or marketing is going to turn it into what they wanted it to be at this point. It’s at the point where if someone starts casually talking about LinkedIn they get sideways glances as to why they would even be using it, unless they work in HR.

  • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    “The new verification system will prevent bot spam!” - Some rich guy who has no idea how the internet works

    Seriously, it’s been such a pain reading Chinese content on Twitter/X/whatever. If you post any stuff that says something critical about China, no matter if it’s news, opinions, or just shit posts, and have some amount of Chinese speaking followers, you are now guaranteed to have sex-bots spam commenting your every post. And you can’t do anything about it, since they have multiple accounts, and some just leave the comment and block you so you can’t remove it.

    Edit: grammar

    • stopthatgirl7@kbin.socialOP
      5·
      1 year ago

      It’s going to be an even bigger mess if Elon goes through with getting rid of block and only leaving people with a mute. There won’t be any way to stop these porn bots.

    • HaggierRapscallier@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There are a ton on twitter generally, more than 80 percent of my followers on a small account are obvious fake profiles/porn bots. But they don’t reply often, they mostly like.

  • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, the only real solution is leaving Twitter. With the plan to remove the block feature this will only get worse and worse. I really don’t see this sort of thing getting better anytime soon or later.

    Some options: Mastodon is great, push through that initial anxiety about servers and just hop on. Not threads! Unless you’re okay with FaceBook taking, very literally, all your data. Bluesky I’ve heard is okay, but it’s another billionaire project that has an algorithm to do whatever they want.