Flying Squid to [email protected]English • 2 years agoElon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk.www.mirror.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1323arrow-down116
arrow-up1307arrow-down1external-linkElon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk.www.mirror.co.ukFlying Squid to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish47•2 years agoNo he shouldn’t. He should just do nothing. Let Twitter die already. Also those are all so obviously AI generated images lol
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlinkfedilinkEnglish23•2 years agoI’m sorry, I can’t agree that nothing should be done. I would love Twitter to die, but these scams are actively hurting people. They are criminals and must be stopped and Twitter is doing nothing about it, even when Elon himself is used as bait.
minus-squareBustedPancakelinkfedilinkEnglish43•edit-22 years agoThe biggest scammer of them all runs Twitter, so don’t get your hopes up too high.
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoI’m not hopeful at all. If anything, it will get worse.
minus-square👁️👄👁️linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoMaybe to someone who’s online and knows what to spot it is. For a normie, it’s good enough to pass off as authentic.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoYou and I wind up subsidizing these scams, as victims can fall into the social safety net.
No he shouldn’t. He should just do nothing. Let Twitter die already. Also those are all so obviously AI generated images lol
I’m sorry, I can’t agree that nothing should be done. I would love Twitter to die, but these scams are actively hurting people. They are criminals and must be stopped and Twitter is doing nothing about it, even when Elon himself is used as bait.
The biggest scammer of them all runs Twitter, so don’t get your hopes up too high.
I’m not hopeful at all. If anything, it will get worse.
I’m hopeful it will get worse.
Maybe to someone who’s online and knows what to spot it is. For a normie, it’s good enough to pass off as authentic.
You and I wind up subsidizing these scams, as victims can fall into the social safety net.