#badactors — Public Fediverse posts

NameHim.io "database di soggetti problematici (bad actors) gestito dalla comunità".

Il sito specifica che per richiedere la rimozione di un nome è necessario un ordine del tribunale valido.

#badactors #namehim
https://www.namehim.io/

La #désinformation climatique cause des inquiétudes dans les milieux scientifiques.

« La désinformation organisée et concertée pour empêcher les citoyens de comprendre la crise climatique constitue d’ailleurs la thèse du dernier livre de son dernier livre Science Under Siege : How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World, coécrit avec le scientifique Peter Hotez. » #BadActors #Climat #Climatologie

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/environnement/2025-10-26/la-desinformation-climatique-cause-des-inquietudes-dans-les-milieux-scientifiques.php

La #désinformation climatique cause des inquiétudes dans les milieux scientifiques.

« La désinformation organisée et concertée pour empêcher les citoyens de comprendre la crise climatique constitue d’ailleurs la thèse du dernier livre de son dernier livre Science Under Siege : How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World, coécrit avec le scientifique Peter Hotez. » #BadActors #Climat #Climatologie

https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/environnement/2025-10-26/la-desinformation-climatique-cause-des-inquietudes-dans-les-milieux-scientifiques.php

Refactored Analysis of TikTok's Content Moderation

The #TikTok CEO's comments seem to confirm my suspicion: the #platform is designed to deliver #content without adequately filtering for #extremistviewpoints during its rapid-fire serving process. While a faster #review is technically possible when a #video is uploaded, the current #moderationprocess is clearly insufficient before #content is served to the public.

This #system works exactly as #badactors need it to. They abuse the platform to spread #radicalizedcontent, and #TikTok appears to do little about it. This is less a failure of #proactive effort and more a consequence of the platform's core #design.

The Algorithmic "#RabbitHole"

The system's priorities appear to be purely #political and #engagement-driven. If a user engages with one piece of #extremistcontent—even through an unrelated #hashtag—the #algorithm starts pushing a flood of similar extremist material to them. This creates a confusing array of user profiles that engage with conflicting #ideologies (e.g., both #extremistright and #extremistleft content), making it difficult to pin down a person's exact #politicalalignment.

I believe the #AI is designed to profile every possible vulnerability—#loneliness, #desperation, #politicalviews—to keep users #engaged for as long as possible. The system operates without any discernible #ethicallogic. If ethical guardrails exist, the #AI certainly doesn't appear to be learning in a safe or positive way.
https://www.ted.com/talks/shou_chew_tiktok_s_ceo_on_its_future_and_what_makes_its_algorithm_different?fbclid=IwY2xjawNMJHxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpe_32vhUBup2q9JgJ5EXh7mN4NDXxRQQ_MC5m9g_RF2IcYGIwnXB6Wc09gI_aem_WbzHkJqzEFEySlER6tmtLg

Refactored Analysis of TikTok's Content Moderation

The #TikTok CEO's comments seem to confirm my suspicion: the #platform is designed to deliver #content without adequately filtering for #extremistviewpoints during its rapid-fire serving process. While a faster #review is technically possible when a #video is uploaded, the current #moderationprocess is clearly insufficient before #content is served to the public.

This #system works exactly as #badactors need it to. They abuse the platform to spread #radicalizedcontent, and #TikTok appears to do little about it. This is less a failure of #proactive effort and more a consequence of the platform's core #design.

The Algorithmic "#RabbitHole"

The system's priorities appear to be purely #political and #engagement-driven. If a user engages with one piece of #extremistcontent—even through an unrelated #hashtag—the #algorithm starts pushing a flood of similar extremist material to them. This creates a confusing array of user profiles that engage with conflicting #ideologies (e.g., both #extremistright and #extremistleft content), making it difficult to pin down a person's exact #politicalalignment.

I believe the #AI is designed to profile every possible vulnerability—#loneliness, #desperation, #politicalviews—to keep users #engaged for as long as possible. The system operates without any discernible #ethicallogic. If ethical guardrails exist, the #AI certainly doesn't appear to be learning in a safe or positive way.
https://www.ted.com/talks/shou_chew_tiktok_s_ceo_on_its_future_and_what_makes_its_algorithm_different?fbclid=IwY2xjawNMJHxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHpe_32vhUBup2q9JgJ5EXh7mN4NDXxRQQ_MC5m9g_RF2IcYGIwnXB6Wc09gI_aem_WbzHkJqzEFEySlER6tmtLg

Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods

https://americansunlight.substack.com/cp/168074209

#HackerNews #BadActors #LLMs #Falsehoods #Misinformation #AIethics

Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods

https://americansunlight.substack.com/cp/168074209

#HackerNews #BadActors #LLMs #Falsehoods #Misinformation #AIethics

I came across the #Fail2Ban #docker image from #linuxserverio and thought to myself that it's finally time to set up Fail2Ban. I admit i never used it before and it was a bit difficult to add it to my #playbook as all of my #servers have different services and therefore different #logfile paths, but that's nothing #jinja #templating can't fix.

Now that i've got #Discord notifications for banned #IPs, it's time to work on actual #IPblocking. I also want to use the #IPComplaint and #AbuseIPDB actions as i really like the idea of reporting abuse (even though i have no idea how effective that may be).

I may also want to replace the discord #webhook with #email notifications later as that's mostly the reason i've set up a #mailserver ( #stalwart ) in the first place.

I mean, most of my services are only accessible from #tailscale or my #homenetwork, but since #Ansible makes it so much easier to apply higher standards, i just can't resist. My #homelab is changing every day and i think setting up additional #security, even though i don't need it yet, is never a bad idea.

#networking #badactors #firewall #automation #linux #selfhosting #homeserver

I came across the #Fail2Ban #docker image from #linuxserverio and thought to myself that it's finally time to set up Fail2Ban. I admit i never used it before and it was a bit difficult to add it to my #playbook as all of my #servers have different services and therefore different #logfile paths, but that's nothing #jinja #templating can't fix.

Now that i've got #Discord notifications for banned #IPs, it's time to work on actual #IPblocking. I also want to use the #IPComplaint and #AbuseIPDB actions as i really like the idea of reporting abuse (even though i have no idea how effective that may be).

I may also want to replace the discord #webhook with #email notifications later as that's mostly the reason i've set up a #mailserver ( #stalwart ) in the first place.

I mean, most of my services are only accessible from #tailscale or my #homenetwork, but since #Ansible makes it so much easier to apply higher standards, i just can't resist. My #homelab is changing every day and i think setting up additional #security, even though i don't need it yet, is never a bad idea.

#networking #badactors #firewall #automation #linux #selfhosting #homeserver

Reddit, assholes, meet pi-hole.

#geek #internet #censorship #fail #badactors #reddit

Reddit, assholes, meet pi-hole.

#geek #internet #censorship #fail #badactors #reddit

Whew, that was lucky.

I just saw that Tom Cruise is releasing another Mission Impossible movie in May.

Thank God, I was afraid I was going to run out of things to hate this spring.

I understand from the teaser the U.S. gifts him an aircraft carrier in this one. I'd like to say that's a patently ridiculous premise but then I remembered who's in charge of the DoD these days.

#BadMovies
#BadActors
#EvenTheMoviesAreStupid

Whew, that was lucky.

I just saw that Tom Cruise is releasing another Mission Impossible movie in May.

Thank God, I was afraid I was going to run out of things to hate this spring.

I understand from the teaser the U.S. gifts him an aircraft carrier in this one. I'd like to say that's a patently ridiculous premise but then I remembered who's in charge of the DoD these days.

#BadMovies
#BadActors
#EvenTheMoviesAreStupid

1. If you're going to #report somebody you need to give #examples of what #activity you're reporting. Just #reporting a #profile and telling an #instance #admin that an #account is being "#spammy" doesn't cut it. Not when we can clearly see the user is not.

2. Again, not a very helpful report. You report a user and say they're a #SCAM account but offer up absolutely no #evidence to support your #claim.

3. Every account was new once, including the person that reported this one. As long as #NSFW #content is properly #flagged, there's no issue. Suspecting an account to be a "scam account or worse" is not a valid #reason for reporting an account.

4. Another report without any basis or #justification.

5. Again, another baseless report about somebody with absolutely ZERO evidence to back up their claim.

So here's what's going to happen....

The instances that forwarded these #bogus #reports to me, and wasted my time, each have a strike against them.

Strike three and we tell #Sharkey to #ignore any and all reports coming from the #instance in the future.

No #admin wants #BadActors on their instances, and no admin wants a #BadActor to make someone else feel unwelcome.

But you can't just flag and report an account for any bullshit reason either.

You have to give us proof and evidence.

This is not high school and this is not middle school. If somebody is being disruptive or causing problems, let us know.

But if you just suspect someone might cause problems or they might be disruptive... wait until you have proof and evidence and then let us know!

#FediAdmin #AdminStuff #administrivia #UserReports #FediReports #InstanceAdmins #MastoAdmin

1. If you're going to #report somebody you need to give #examples of what #activity you're reporting. Just #reporting a #profile and telling an #instance #admin that an #account is being "#spammy" doesn't cut it. Not when we can clearly see the user is not.

2. Again, not a very helpful report. You report a user and say they're a #SCAM account but offer up absolutely no #evidence to support your #claim.

3. Every account was new once, including the person that reported this one. As long as #NSFW #content is properly #flagged, there's no issue. Suspecting an account to be a "scam account or worse" is not a valid #reason for reporting an account.

4. Another report without any basis or #justification.

5. Again, another baseless report about somebody with absolutely ZERO evidence to back up their claim.

So here's what's going to happen....

The instances that forwarded these #bogus #reports to me, and wasted my time, each have a strike against them.

Strike three and we tell #Sharkey to #ignore any and all reports coming from the #instance in the future.

No #admin wants #BadActors on their instances, and no admin wants a #BadActor to make someone else feel unwelcome.

But you can't just flag and report an account for any bullshit reason either.

You have to give us proof and evidence.

This is not high school and this is not middle school. If somebody is being disruptive or causing problems, let us know.

But if you just suspect someone might cause problems or they might be disruptive... wait until you have proof and evidence and then let us know!

#FediAdmin #AdminStuff #administrivia #UserReports #FediReports #InstanceAdmins #MastoAdmin

#PSA

"bird.makeup is a Twitter to ActivityPub bridge."

At least 4 different users of this service came across my feed today. It seems to be used by a lot of creeps, liars, #grifters, and far-right folks, so beware. I guess that's not super surprising, considering the increasing percentage of Twitter that is pure 💩

Blocking them, and recommend others do the same.

#BadActors #Blocked #Instances #Fascism #ThatsNotWelcomeHere #TheBadPlace

#PSA

"bird.makeup is a Twitter to ActivityPub bridge."

At least 4 different users of this service came across my feed today. It seems to be used by a lot of creeps, liars, #grifters, and far-right folks, so beware. I guess that's not super surprising, considering the increasing percentage of Twitter that is pure 💩

Blocking them, and recommend others do the same.

#BadActors #Blocked #Instances #Fascism #ThatsNotWelcomeHere #TheBadPlace

This is an ad served by Google Ads. It appears superimposed on a (legitimate) web page, with the rest of the page blurred out. I didn't check to see where clicking the Open button would take me, but I doubt it's anywhere good.

Google does allow users to give feedback on this ad, but the only option is "Seen too many times”. There is no option to flag it as the blatant cross-site scripting/probable #phishing attack that it is.

#security #Google #PhishingAsAService #BadActors

This is an ad served by Google Ads. It appears superimposed on a (legitimate) web page, with the rest of the page blurred out. I didn't check to see where clicking the Open button would take me, but I doubt it's anywhere good.

Google does allow users to give feedback on this ad, but the only option is "Seen too many times”. There is no option to flag it as the blatant cross-site scripting/probable #phishing attack that it is.

#security #Google #PhishingAsAService #BadActors

"Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine" https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/ Ignoring robots.txt files and pretending to look up answers? I bet they'll have to overpay humans to help them spin their way out of this. #LLMs #Perplexity #BadActors

Please welcome the ultimate #SPAM mail text:

> [email protected]
Due to new updates on our server, your email account:
[email protected] will stop receiving emails if not verified within 24hrs starting from today
To keep your account with us, kindly verify below

#internet #badActors

Just wrote a blog post about #spotify’s habit of condoning #badactors here at https://jaypeachproductions.com/index.php/2024/03/26/spotifys-bad-actors/

A #Conservative #Parent Got 444 #Books #Removed from a #Wisconsin #SchoolDistrict

This #story illustrates how #badactors #manipulate #bad #policy to create #chaos, while #wasting significant amounts of #time, #money, and #energy for #publicinstitutions and #taxpayers

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://bookriot.com/one-parent-got-444-books-removed-from-a-wisconsin-school-district/

A #Conservative #Parent Got 444 #Books #Removed from a #Wisconsin #SchoolDistrict

This #story illustrates how #badactors #manipulate #bad #policy to create #chaos, while #wasting significant amounts of #time, #money, and #energy for #publicinstitutions and #taxpayers

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://bookriot.com/one-parent-got-444-books-removed-from-a-wisconsin-school-district/

尋找Blur在香港的回憶 ︱
Blur稱來港演出遭拒批簽證
入境處表示從未接獲申請：
不能接受散播誤導資訊 須予譴責

“I got away, for a little while/ But then it came back much harder.”
(Blur《Ghost Ship》, 2015）從九龍去大嶼山搭纜車到寶蓮寺， #Blur 只是離開了一回，回來後卻更加嚴峻。樂隊bass手 #AlexJames 在BBC Radio 6節目接受Lauren Laverne訪問，談到原計劃以香港為世界巡迴終站，“apparently, the Chinese government consider us to be #badactors （不良分子） , so we’re not allowed back in Hong Kong sadly.” 他也不禁苦笑。

Hong Kong Free Press最先報道事件，網上迅速擴散，入境處始回覆 #HKFP ，表示處方未有接獲...
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzadMVJty7j/

7/n Today sharing this #DeepStateRadio podcast, with host David #Rothkopf and @MichaelEMann, about #OurFragileMoment. It’s about much more than #COP28 but provides good context - in particular the role of #BadActors like #Murdoch and the #Koch brothers

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/deep-state-radio/id1245002955?i=1000630044822

7/n Today sharing this #DeepStateRadio podcast, with host David #Rothkopf and @MichaelEMann, about #OurFragileMoment. It’s about much more than #COP28 but provides good context - in particular the role of #BadActors like #Murdoch and the #Koch brothers

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/deep-state-radio/id1245002955?i=1000630044822

American media sure is good at turning really small men (and a few women) into larger than life bad actors and then ignoring that their performances suck.

#Politics #USPol #badactors

American media sure is good at turning really small men (and a few women) into larger than life bad actors and then ignoring that their performances suck.

#Politics #USPol #badactors

"Musk’s new Twitter policies helped spread Russian propaganda, E.U. says"
🎁🔗 https://wapo.st/3R0JiBF
Meta's been a bad actor too, as per usual. #BadActors #Disinfo #RussiaIsATerroristState

The level of disappointment I feel in @[email protected] right now is off the charts. And the blindness of so many to obvious attempts to destroy leftist unity. I've had to constantly fight against this in real world organizing, and I started quietly discussing some obvious bad actors in this space with some people here but here we are.

To be clear, over the course of a month an effective leftist instance was expanded, infiltrated, it's most powerful voice evicted and the instance admin outmaneuvered. The instance may not exist soon, and it provided tooling and lists used to keep much of leftist ActivityPub/Mastodon safe.

People need to take a big step back and look at the big picture of what is going on here. This was effective organizing until others organized to undermine and destroy it.

#oliphant #badactors #anarchistnina

#MhairiBlack: #Trans people should be ‘left the hell alone’.

The #SNP’s #deputy #Westminster #leader said “#badactors” are using the #debate around #trans #people as a “#wedgeissue to cause #chaos

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #SNP #Allies #Tories #Labour #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #TERFIsland #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes https://www.newschainonline.com/news/mhairi-black-trans-people-should-be-left-the-hell-alone-352062

#MhairiBlack: #Trans people should be ‘left the hell alone’.

The #SNP’s #deputy #Westminster #leader said “#badactors” are using the #debate around #trans #people as a “#wedgeissue to cause #chaos

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #SNP #Allies #Tories #Labour #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #TERFIsland #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes https://www.newschainonline.com/news/mhairi-black-trans-people-should-be-left-the-hell-alone-352062

💭 Right-wing 'critique' of the left is generally based on an affirming the consequent fallacy; that because an example of an ignorant or extreme leftist activist can be found, all leftist politics is ignorant and extreme. This is bad faith. It sets out to confirm its own bias.
#CultureWar #BadActors

@briannawu people who discourage people from #voting are either #UsefulIdiots or known #BadActors in a #PsyOp for the opposite site.

Whether they are either is irrelevant for the results however - as well as how to treat them: As the bad actors they are...

that's a clever vector, victor:

#badActors are masquerading as #security researchers with fake #github accounts and other social-media connected to them.

they then report vulnerabilities, and the example repositories include #malware

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-zero-day-poc-exploits-on-github-push-windows-linux-malware/

1/2 General Purpose AI is a huge double #threat to #humanity, but people are only concentrating on the 2nd part of the threat, the #Singularity, which is something we won't be able to do anything about anyway because it's mostly in the hands of #BadActors who won't listen to #regulation at all.
We will likely be in a world where #NorthKorea will be the #AI equivalent of being a primary nuclear power, for example.

https://bit.ly/3oJuWdc

#UBI #Economics #Politics #ChatGPT #News #Opinion #Safety

And so it (just) goes?
That they are above the law?

#ChiefJusticeRoberts declines to testify before Congress Over #Ethics Concerns
...insisting their current ethical guidelines on gifts, travel & financial deals are sufficient.
#SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #ConservativeCourt #badactors

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/us/politics/justice-roberts-supreme-court-ethics.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20230426&instance_id=91085&nl=the-morning&regi_id=144968602&segment_id=131375&te=1&user_id=f2f4b1162190f8fa76854ac54d8f552e

And so it (just) goes?
That they are above the law?

#ChiefJusticeRoberts declines to testify before Congress Over #Ethics Concerns
...insisting their current ethical guidelines on gifts, travel & financial deals are sufficient.
#SCOTUS #ClarenceThomas #ConservativeCourt #badactors

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/us/politics/justice-roberts-supreme-court-ethics.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20230426&instance_id=91085&nl=the-morning&regi_id=144968602&segment_id=131375&te=1&user_id=f2f4b1162190f8fa76854ac54d8f552e

CSIS warned COVID-19 would spark wave of conspiracy theories and extremism, documents reveal

A series of intelligence reports and briefing notes obtained by the Toronto Star reveal Canada intelligence network was warning about the rise of COVID-19 conspiracies as early as mid-2020

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/04/20/csis-warned-covid-19-would-spark-wave-of-conspiracy-theories-and-extremism-documents-reveal.html

#lies #conspiracies #BadActors #covid19 #AntiGovernment #violence

#ChatGPT #AI #chatbot has become #socialmedia's latest favorite #tool for getting answers #online. But some have warned #badactors could take advantage of the #bot. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-viral-rcna59628 #onlinefraud #scam #google #artificialintelligence

Of course #aws features are going to be coming fast and furious in the run up to #ReInvent but another neat #CloudSecurity feature for #CloudFront is
hashing of the TLS Client Hello packet to create the JA3 #fingerprint.

Allows you to create a #BlockList (or #AllowList if you're lucky enough) of #BadActors in your #WAF (or just to log for anomalies)

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2022/11/amazon-cloudfront-supports-ja3-fingerprint-headers/

#mastodon #security I'm concerned about #vulnerabilities in the #federation of servers. It seems to me that #badActors will be able to use throw away #instances as an #attackVector