Post #3643866
2026-07-07 06:50 UTC
I've started getting Google Scholar alerts which announce work by legit academics but the titles click through to porn sites.
Does anyone know why that would be?
Some kind of SEO scam? Some kind of phishing? Something more targetted against the affected academics?
#AcademicChatter #ScholarlyPublishing
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@stuartyeates@cloudisland.nz 2026-07-07 07:13
@tomstafford@mastodon.online I'm guessing an enterprising spammer linked an email address to a google scholar profile and used AI to generate text based on that to get you to click on links to their sites.