‘I Was Targeted by a Hostile Crypto Spambot Swarm That Revealed How X’s Algorithm Has Been Truly Broken’ – Byline Times
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Over the past week, my X account has been flooded by a barrage of spam replies. Dozens of accounts with Bored Ape Non-Fungible Token profile pictures and barely coherent messages tagged me in praise of a supposed crypto trader named @GavinBrookswin.
Their syntax was robotic, their engagement artificial. But the impact was—it increasingly became clear— all too real.
At first, I thought it…
