Post #1428115
2026-02-03 09:15 UTC
@jmaris @hazelweakly @modulux
coordinated inauthentic behaviour requires coordinated responses, and a timely paper on this from @sohw explores the barriers to coordinated governance: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19653
For example, we've been monitoring the coordinated pro-Russian accounts being created across a large number of communities. When we notify server admins, we get a range of "these have been deleted" to "why should we trust your findings" to "we have no intention of removing these accounts".
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@iftas@mastodon.iftas.org 2026-02-03 09:20
@jmaris @hazelweakly @modulux @sohw this only gets harder when the issue requires empathy or a reasonable understanding of the harms faced by a group or individual that not all community managers are well-versed in. But to the question of regulation addressing these issues, I would suggest that many/most harms are already illegal under other laws, harassment is harassment after all, but enforcement of cyber-violence/cyber-bullying relies on the victim doing the work. It would seem to me (1/2)