Anyone who’s spent time on Twitter in the past few months especially has probably run into or at least heard of the “P U S S Y I N B I O”-type replies that posts regularly seem to attract.
Why are they so prevalent? Are they actually so successful that it’s worthwhile to do this? I do not understand who benefits from these, because there cannot be so many people clicking on these links that they’re effective… Can there?
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There don’t have to be a lot of people clicking the links. There only need to be a small number getting fooled by it. That’s the basic strategy of phishing. The target audience isn’t everyone who knows better but that tiny subset that doesn’t.
Why are they so prevalent? Because Musk’s desire to turn Twitter into a bastion of free speech meant gutting the moderation department, leaving the platform with nothing that could effectively combat the porn bots.
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