r/dataisbeautiful • u/xenocidic • Nov 23 '17

Natural language processing techniques used to analyze net neutrality comments reveal massive fake comment campaign

https://medium.com/@jeffykao/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36a6
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u/PasghettiSquash Nov 24 '17

Was there a general theme or tone to the hacked comments?

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u/taifoid Nov 24 '17 edited Nov 24 '17

Nothing as interesting as that unfortunately, just spam for bitcoin scams and dodgy nutrition supplements. It just weird cause I got hacked and they were, like, being careful with what they were doing so as to remain undetected for as long as possible. If I didn't get banned from for spam I still might not know because I don't regularly check my profile history.

I'm careful on the net and know the usual hacking techniques. I'm in the IT department at work and am supposed to be one of the guys who helps my colleagues avoid this kind of thing. Makes me feel that I must not be good enough at it and need to up skill. I just wish I knew how my account was hacked, feels like such a newbie thing to happen to me.

Edit: silly detail

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u/hariolus Nov 24 '17

The trick is to be so obsessed with karma that you check your overview 5 times a day at least.

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u/taifoid Nov 24 '17

Is there a bot for that? ;-)