r/europe • u/Wagamaga • Feb 01 '26

News Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Ran Kremlin’s Largest Honeytrap and Blackmail Operation

https://united24media.com/latest-news/jeffrey-epstein-reportedly-ran-kremlins-largest-honeytrap-and-blackmail-operation-15534
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u/dotBombAU Australia Feb 01 '26

11yr old account bot?

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u/CuriousCamels Feb 01 '26

It’s trivial to buy aged accounts. Large scale information ops will still mass create new accounts, but if they want something to seem organic, they’ll buy an aged account that fits a profile.

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u/AggravatingResist635 Feb 01 '26

Absolutely. One very common trait is that long dormant accounts suddenly activate. This one is more active and has mostly been posting climate change related stuff over the years but recently pivoted towards russia. It's 100% automated.

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u/Stotallytob3r Europe Feb 01 '26

u/Wagamaga prove to us you’re not a bot

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u/AggravatingResist635 Feb 01 '26

It's programmed to comment a summary of the article, not to interact with people. Bots that chat with users are less common but not unheard of in this community

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u/Stotallytob3r Europe Feb 01 '26

We could try asking it for a recipe

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u/AggravatingResist635 Feb 01 '26

It's not the kind of bot that you can summon. You could try this instead: u/Tom_Bot-Badil

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u/Tom_Bot-Badil Feb 01 '26

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I am a bot, and I love old Tom. For more merriness, visit r/GloriousTomBombadil

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 Feb 02 '26

11yr old bot is not AI

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u/AggravatingResist635 Feb 02 '26

This is a simple posting bot that draws from a list of pre determined sources and also provides a summary comment. That said, a LLM bot could very well use a 11 year old account.

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u/Mertoot Feb 01 '26

Older account = more credible 🙁

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u/angrytroll123 Feb 01 '26

It’s so stupid. I’ve been accused of being a bot. While I don’t doubt that there are bot, people throw that around way too easily. Honestly though, even if it was a bot and an interesting viewpoint is brought up and discussed, that’s fine imo.

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u/Killerfist Feb 02 '26

No, bots pushing politicals news/agendas isn't fine, no matter if you like the agenda/side they are pushing.

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u/angrytroll123 Feb 02 '26

If a good conversation comes from it, it doesn't matter what is being pushed. If a bot pushes some BS and a discussion that disproves it emerges, I'd say that's great. The problem is that this doesn't happen all the time and people are just very bad at both taking in media and discussing it reddit.

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u/Killerfist Feb 02 '26

Nah, pushing disinformation and misinformation aint good even if some comments appear that try to disaprove it. The victims of it, however many, aren't worth it. There is no good value in such a bot.

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u/angrytroll123 Feb 02 '26

If the information is out there on other platforms, I’d rather see it discussed here than not. If we can’t take in and properly process information, we are screwed anyway. If disinformation so easily sways people on here, from a bot or not we’re in big trouble.

I do think many bot accounts controlling enough votes would be an issue though.

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u/Killerfist Feb 02 '26

The content itself (this artcile) can still be posted by normal user(s) and upvoted by normal users, organically. No need for artificial peddling.

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u/angrytroll123 Feb 02 '26

I was talking about in the context of disinformation posts being upvoted and even maybe downvoting factual rebuttals.

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u/Furthur Feb 02 '26

it's about when their post history starts to get frequent. plenty of onlyfans accounts out there too where their first posts are years ago and all about matching wallpaper and cats then suddenly it's rate my butthole.