—Melissa Heikkilä
Like many others, I lately joined Bluesky. On Thanksgiving, I used to be delighted to see a non-public message from a fellow AI reporter, Will Knight from Wired. Or not less than that’s who I assumed I used to be speaking to. I grew to become suspicious when the particular person claiming to be Knight stated they have been from Miami, when Knight is, in truth, from the UK. The account deal with was nearly equivalent to the true Will Knight’s deal with, and used his profile picture.
Then extra messages began to look. Paris Marx, a outstanding tech critic, slid into my DMs to ask me how I used to be doing. Each accounts have been ultimately deleted, however not earlier than attempting to get me to arrange a crypto pockets and a “cloud mining pool” account. Knight and Marx confirmed to us these accounts didn’t belong to them, and that they’ve been combating impersonator accounts of themselves for weeks.
They’re not alone. The platform has needed to out of the blue cater to an inflow of hundreds of thousands of recent customers in current months as folks go away X in protest of Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform. However this sudden wave of recent customers —and the inevitable scammers — means Bluesky remains to be enjoying catch up. Learn the total story.
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