r/worldnews manipulating Ghislaine Maxwell news - Post with spelling mistake in name slips past auto-downvote bots and filters, gets 40k upvotes before being manually deleted

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[–]IridescentAnaconda 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Maxwell and r/worldnews aside, I'm stuck on a minor epiphany that in retrospect should have been obvious: bots can be foiled (at least temporarily) by creative and clever spelling errors (or substitutions).

[–]FediNetizen 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Lots of twitter users do this. Twitter's search functionality is quite powerful, but most people only search for literal text results, so if people are talking about to tweet something spicy that might break the twitter rules, they'll replace some of the characters. So instead of saying "I'd fucking love to kill some terfs", they'll say "I'd fucking love to k*ll some t*rfs" or something along those lines.