How to be an Amateur Bot Hunter

Marianne Bellotti
10 min readJul 25, 2021

Social networks are full of fake accounts, tracing their networks and observing their behavior can reveal interesting things about how the world works. But only if you can find them!

Some posts from the fake influencer I created to trap bots ;D

I have a long running fascination with scammers. From the very first moment my father introduced me to the film The Sting, nothing has proved more entertaining than exploring an elaborately constructed con. It’s a form of…

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Marianne Bellotti

Author of Kill It with Fire Manage Aging Computer Systems (and Future Proof Modern Ones)