Tag: spam

• Facebook’s AI Spam Isn’t the ‘Dead Internet’: It’s the Zombie Internet

  May 3, 2024

  Over the last few months, many have proposed that the AI spam taking over Facebook is a great example of the “Dead Internet Theory,” which posits that large portions of… more ›

• Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them

  March 6, 2024

  At 404 Media we have tried very hard to make our content the old-fashioned way, but, after watching an Instagram Reel that suggested we could get wildly rich with no… more ›

• These are the shady tricks shopping sites use to get your money and info

  August 17, 2019

  Shopping websites have ways of getting you to do what they want, and the sneakiest design and interface tricks they use are known as “dark patterns. https://qz.com/1657890/this-is-how-shopping-sites-trick-you-for-money-and-info/ more ›

• Spam is back

  November 20, 2017

  Spam is back » Bill Waggoner, a longtime email marketer who the Las Vegas Review Journal called a “spam king” in 2003, recently found himself in an ironic situation: He… more ›