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Sohan Dsouza
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🥼 @MPIB-Berlin.bsky.social;
📚 computational social science, disinformation/polarization, crowdsourcing, OSINT;
🎓 @MIT.edu @MediaLab.bsky.social, @DFRLab.bsky.social #DigitalSherlocks;
📍 London, England;
https://www.sohandsouza.info
As does Facebook, which is why we also have this sort of grift going on over there:
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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It doesn’t need conspiracy or coordination. The incentives alone are sufficient. The platform pays the public to perform, and the performance produces the disorder.
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Even sincere actors get pulled into the same incentive field. Their beliefs may be genuine, but the attention economy doesn’t distinguish. To be heard, they must compete with the grifters on the grifters’ terms.
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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It produces a performative ecosystem. Actors aren’t communicating; they’re staging provocations for yield. The result is disordered discourse: signals detached from truth, identity shaped by escalation, and a feedback loop where the performance eclipses reality itself.
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
They copied a tweet posted a day earlier by another user. There's a whole industry of people (mostly in India, apparently) whose accounts boost engagement by copy-reposting content of other accounts' popular posts or replies.
My piece on such grifters: sohandsouza.substack.com/p/spammy-vib...
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Did you get this screenshot first-hand? I checked it myself, and it shows the USA as its location and app provenance (while noting reported proxy/VPN use).
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I just updated my own profile of similar such accounts: sohandsouza.substack.com/p/spammy-vib...
This will be helpful (especially given that many new inauthentic accounts are entering the fray), although only to the extent that the operators don't use VPNs or proxies in other countries.
Spammy Vibes and Monetized Jibes
Opacity and incentives converge to drive a thriving grift industry on the socials
sohandsouza.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM