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Here is why I left this discussion forum, which still has posts from people with fake profiles:

December 31, 2011 at 3:31 pm.

Posted by think!

Fake Profiles Used for Spying, Cyberstalking, Crowdturfing, Site-fluffing by Sue Basko Fake profiles have long been used for things such as spying on ex-friends and voting for a favorite band. Now fake profiles have stepped up to doing real work for real pay for the masters who control them. I was recently cyberstalked by a person/entity using a mob of fake profiles, so I can give some insight into what they do. A recent paper by researchers out of University of California Santa Barbara describes astroturfing as such: “Astroturfing refers to information … Continued

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This website was created in the fall of 2011. Most of it is now moribund, but the Occupy Oakland Calendar, which lists activist events in the East Bay (and occasionally elsewhere) is still maintained, the Search facility works to find earlier posts and keep OO’s history alive, and articles are occasionally still posted to the front page.

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