Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org to

You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago

YSK: Someone is creating sockpuppet account after sockpuppet account self-promoting an AI slop plagiarized news site.

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YSK: Someone is creating sockpuppet account after sockpuppet account self-promoting an AI slop plagiarized news site.

Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org to

You Should Know@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours ago

They’re trying really hard to make their AI-plagiarized slop “news” site happen. You’ll see posts linking to primestories24 [dot] com but they’re AI slop regurgitating likely legit news articles. Every “reporter” has some generic profile that is most likely the system prompt used for everything they “write”.

If you see a post to that domain, report it as spam. The accounts all look similar to this:

@Bellar36@beehaw.org
@Belinda42@lemmy.wtf
@tatyana43@piefed.ca
@Graham43@sopuli.xyz
@Belinda43@fedia.io
@belinda35@piefed.social
@PrimeStories247@lemmy.ca (First ban-evasion alt)
@PrimeStories24@sh.itjust.works (Original account)

This list isn’t comprehensive.

Update: They are now using sockpuppet alts to vote/boost their posts. Just found @Babrah28@ttrpg.network that way and, surprise surprise, it was registered the same time as the latest batch.

Note: Technically the above is violating rule 7 if you consider spambots to be members. I don’t, but if this is a problem, let me know, and I’ll remove that part.

The domain was registered in May of 2026 and is roughly when these accounts started popping up.

   Domain Name: PRIMESTORIES24.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 3105727536_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.web4africa.net
   Registrar URL: http://hostafrica.com/
   Updated Date: 2026-06-19T10:01:29Z
   Creation Date: 2026-05-31T12:16:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2027-05-31T12:16:00Z
   Registrar: Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.
   Registrar IANA ID: 664
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web4africa.net
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6465850088
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: DAN1.HOST-WW.NET
   Name Server: DAN2.HOST-WW.NET
   DNSSEC: unsigned

Admins, I’m aware Lemmy is severely lacking in moderation capability, but one thing it does have is domain blocking. That prevents posting to those domains and it now seems to prevent links to those domains from federating in.

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probably the same kind of spammers that also does this on reddit. i was a forum where they have discussing driving traffic through the site by using methods to just spam on multiple threads/instances.

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