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Caroline Orr Bueno
Personal blog · weaponizedspaces.substack.compoliticssecurity
Caroline Orr Bueno writes Weaponized, a personal blog at weaponizedspaces.substack.com about politics and security. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-31, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
Caroline Orr Bueno's Substack on social media accounts, bots and viral misinformation, linked for her critique of the Nick Shirley daycare fraud video and her post on X's location feature.
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Dispatches from the frontlines of the information war, where I’ll break down the latest in disinformation, deception, and the dark side of technology.
Most-linked posts?
- X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-24
What Hacker News says?
American American or 'American' with account registered in Nigeria/India using VPN to post on social media? "How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m11218xo https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-in... https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/x-just-accidentally-... or maybe VPN using Canadian secessionist from Thailand? https://www.cp24…
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on “Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says”Submitted X Just Accidentally Exposed a Covert Influence Network Targeting Americans as a story · 322 points
HN discussionWhat to know about Nick Shirley, the YouTuber alleging day care fraud in Minnesota: https://www.npr.org/2025/12/31/nx-s1-5662600/nick-shirley-mi... Nick Shirley’s Somali Daycare Fraud Video Is Bullsh*t. Here’s Why It Worked Anyway: https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/nick-shirleys-somali... : > Shirley‘s video has now been pretty thoroughly taken apart by numerous news organizations, and many of his core claims…
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on “Hacking Welfare Doubles Somalia's GDP”Submitted LA wildfires disinformation reveals limits of fact-checking as a story · 27 points
HN discussionI don't find Matt Taibbi's reporting on the Hamilton 68 dashboard credible. Caroline Orr has written a decent article about it here [1]. From my own investigations relating to social media bot behaviour in completely unrelated spheres (new religious movements / cults online), i've sen bots primarily being used to amplify or suppress content by human operated accounts - people operating bot accounts aren't looking to…
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on “U.S. No Fly list publicly shared on a hacking forum, government investigating”Submitted Trump is setting us up for a cyber catastrophe as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elon Musk Gives Anti-Semites a Chance to Rewrite History as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Psychology of Deception – By Caroline Orr Bueno, PhD as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emory Shooting Highlights Dangers of Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theories as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Russia amplifies calls for civil war in the U.S. as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elon Musk, DOGE, and the looming threat of rogue AI as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vaccination is not a "personal choice" as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elon Musk, DOGE, and the looming threat of rogue AI as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leaked Docs Suggest Trump Admin Running Covert Influence Campaigns on Americans as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moderation Sabotage: How Trump's Team Is Crashing the Guardrails of the Internet as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Revolution Will Be Cognitive – By Caroline Orr Bueno as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elon Musk, DOGE, and the looming threat of rogue AI as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why vaccine misinformation is winning the information war as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why vaccine misinformation is winning the information war as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Election Day Disinformation: Intimidation, Bots, & Synthetic Voices as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Revolution Will Be Cognitive as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elon Musk Gives Anti-Semites a Chance to Rewrite History as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Elon Musk, DOGE, and the looming threat of rogue AI as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Friday's earthquake revealed how much Elon Musk has damaged Twitter as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the contrived panic over Haitian immigrants hijacked our algorithms as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Trump Set Fire to America's Election Defenses. Now He's Pointing at the Smoke as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The information space around military AI is being weaponized against us as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Outrage Machine as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Silent Coup: How Groups Are Gaming Algorithms to Seize Your Feed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Disturbing Implications of Jim Acosta's AI Interview as a story · 3 points
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