People searching X for updates on California's largest wildfire encounter torrent of porn spam https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/park-fire-spam-x-updates-19599026.php
The accounts plagued users with post after post directing them toward pornography websites, rankling those on the hunt for information about California’s largest wildfire of the year so far.
Seemingly to skirt the platform’s filters, many of the spam posts include sentences about the wildfire before linking out to porn websites.
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2024-07-28 17:21:41
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