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I'd venture the way these accounts work is they make literally thousands of social-media platform accounts.

I have a (very) small forum (maybe 100 active users), and it gets multiple bot signups every day, almost all from Russia or other bloc/satellite countries (or laundered through an obvious VPN). If we didn't filter them, we would have tens of thousands by now making hundreds of thousands of posts per day on a forum that gets maybe 20 posts per day.



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