Hundreds of fake accounts defended Jensen Huang and attacked lawmakers over chip exports.
An investigative report reveals that a network of more than 400 fake social media accounts has spent over a year promoting Nvidia's positions on AI chip export controls, defending CEO Jensen Huang through a spy scandal, and attacking lawmakers and commentators. The network is linked to Koios, a supposedly defunct Israeli intelligence and influence firm whose operations appear to have continued under a new name, IntellACT. Nvidia stated it has no relationship with these firms and is trying to identify the source of the accounts. Open article →
- I just unraveled the biggest AI astroturfing campaign I’ve found yet. I found hundreds of fake a...
- It seems the operators are covering their tracks. Starting today, over 120 of the accounts I iden...
- “The accounts belong to a network of over 400 apparent sockpuppet accounts that appear to have sp...
- TLDR: The Midas Project has discovered a massive astroturfing operation. An army of 400 pro-Nvid...
- Who's behind the swarms of influencer bots out commenting on Nvidia/Jensen Huang? Apparently the ...
- Fake accounts defended Jensen Huang and attacked lawmakers
- So, Nvidia has (likely) been funding an influence campaign that uses hundreds of fake X accounts....