Synthetic Messenger

Synthetic Messenger

A Botnet Scheme for Climate News
Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne
Online
2021

Synthetic Messenger is a botnet that artificially inflates the value of climate news. Every day it searches the internet for news articles covering climate change. Then 100 bots visit each article and click on every ad they can find.

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