Archive - Conspirador Norteño

This luthier is real, but this Facebook account is not

In which the operator of a Kyiv-based guitar repair business is impersonated by Facebook spammers

Feb 20 • Conspirador Norteño

A strange set of starter packs

In which numerous popular Bluesky accounts gain large numbers of low quality followers after being added to starter packs created by an account no one…

Feb 14 • Conspirador Norteño

Delivering dubious news in the blue, blue skies

One of the most prolific sources of right-wing media links on Bluesky is a single automated account

Feb 9 • Conspirador Norteño

January 2026

Computer, enhance!

Using generative AI to "enhance" photos and videos and fill in missing details does not, in fact, work

Jan 31 • Conspirador Norteño

Bluesky and SMM panels

Services that sell fake social media engagement are advertising on Bluesky at an increasing rate

Jan 25 • Conspirador Norteño

Spamtastic T-shirt sales

Some spam operations are highly sophisticated and clearly involve significant effort on the part of their operators, but not this one

Jan 17 • Conspirador Norteño

The demonization of Dearborn, Michigan

Islamophobic attacks on Michigan's seventh-largest city are a long-running staple of online discourse

Jan 9 • Conspirador Norteño

This guitar collector does not exist

In which a viral Facebook account with an allegedly massive guitar collection turns out to be an ongoing exercise in plagiarism

Jan 2 • Conspirador Norteño

December 2025

How not to support the National Park Service

Sadly, buying T-shirts from spammy websites will not help protect the U.S. National Park Service

Dec 26, 2025 • Conspirador Norteño

Astroturfing where the skies are blue

How an alleged "enterprise-grade Web3 platform" briefly promoted itself on Bluesky with the aid of thousands of spam accounts

Dec 20, 2025 • Conspirador Norteño

One AI-generated human race, part II

The ongoing saga of a TikTok spam network

Dec 14, 2025 • Conspirador Norteño

Bluesky follower sales websites

As Bluesky grows, so does the spam industry orbiting it

Dec 7, 2025 • Conspirador Norteño

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