🔎 Do you use Farcaster? We took a dive into Liron Shapira and Geoff Golberg's claims that Farcaster's active users are a small fraction of the widely touted 50k+ number. Suji Yan - Mask is BUIDLing says inflated SocialFi stats is "the elephant in the room" Read more: thedefiant.io/news/nfts-and-…

These online smears and disinfo campaigns against women are dangerous. They’ve led to death and rape threats against me and my loved ones, doxxing of our personal info, and a bomb threat against University of Chicago where I was invited to speak. cpj.org/2022/10/cpj-co…

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After I posted a series of hateful tweets you can find below by Scientific American Editor Laura Helmuth, several other @x accounts copied/pasted them into their own tweets, garnering millions of views. Helmuth now denies she's a bigot, but her history shows otherwise.

Bit Paine ⚡️ I believe this to be true. Geoff Golberg produced research on this 6 or 7 years ago. geoffgolberg.medium.com/i-made-a-bet-w…

The XRP (bot) Army still exists and is as dumb as ever. ICYMI 5 years ago, Geoff published an interesting investigation into the astroturfing. x.com/lopp/status/12…

1) I exposed Center for Countering Digital Hate for trying to "Kill Musk's Twitter." We learn today that the British government has been funding them with taxpayer money. Why is England funding a political front group to attack an American company?

if you know Geoff Golberg from Farcaster, his account over here is Social Forensics! give him a follow

Going to say the quiet part out loud. Incentives work and Solana as a whole had no incentive to discourage massively-extractive FOMO-driven PND schemes. Priority fees make up the vast majority of chain revenue and these fees were only sustainable as long as the narrative of get

Check out jesse.base.eth on the #FarCon 2025 attendee map from Social Forensics. maps.socialforensics.com/farcon/#jessep… The map leverages Web3.bio’s Profile API (api.web3.bio) to enhance their data on Farcaster accounts via Web3 Universal Profiles.

Received 0.02 USDC from a new address, guess it’s from a friend from Farcaster, but since I set my bradgao.eth wallet as my Farcaster primary wallet, it is hard to find who the friend is. Fortunately I just search for the wallet address on Firefly ✨ Everything App , and yeah it’s

we worked with geoff from Social Forensics / OpenRank / Jordan Olmstead from quotient.social over a month to decide the right criteria(s), ineligibilities, allocations etc who led great deal of the heavy lifting for the airdrop. 60% went to TIPPERS of great content

Why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?

While Netanyahu and Trump bombed Iran, dozens of prominent diaspora Iranians welcomed the strikes. Among them was Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah overthrown in 1979. Alex Shams on the U.S.- and Israel-backed campaign propping up Pahlavi for regime change: bostonreview.net/articles/our-m…

Why did some Iranians cheer on Israel when it bombed their country? In my latest, I go on a deep dive to expose the coordinated media manipulation campaign with Israeli, US, and Saudi backing boosting regime change in Iran: bostonreview.net/articles/our-m…

Fascinating and well-written piece by Alex Shams here for the Boston Review - of particular interest for me is the social media dimension, and in particular the phenomenon of the pro-monarchist "feedback loops". Really great read. bostonreview.net/articles/our-m…

bostonreview.net/articles/our-m… I liked this piece by Alex Shams a lot not just as a capsule history of zombie Pahlavi monarchism, but as a blow-by-blow account of how a purely online astroturfed movement can, in an online world, bludgeon itself into undeserved relevance.

Visualizing the interconnectedness of accounts being followed by Elon Musk

musk: "it doesn't count if you slap 'ad' on it" :) x.com/sama/status/19…