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Conspirador Norteño
Personal blog · conspirator0.substack.compoliticsai
Conspirador Norteño's personal blog at conspirator0.substack.com covers politics and ai. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Twitter verification shenanigans: gold edition”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post investigating BNN Breaking, which one commenter says is not an actual news organization and uses generative AI to paraphrase articles from news sites.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Various thoughts and analysis of social media manipulation and the spread of disinformation/misinformation.
Most-linked posts?
- Twitter verification shenanigans: gold edition2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-14
- None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-13
What Hacker News says?
Note that BNN Breaking does not appear to be an actual news organization, instead using generative AI to paraphrase articles from news sites. https://conspirator0.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-bnn
Comment linking /p/the-curious-case-of-bnn
on “The Dark Side of Wikipedia”Submitted Baiting the bot as a story · 118 points
HN discussionSubmitted None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted These Chefs Do Not Exist as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted These Chefs Do Not Exist as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted All the news that's fit to spam as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The nine thousand dollar botnet as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 30 Minutes on Facebook as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted None of these people exist but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GAN-Tastic Catfishing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter verification shenanigans: gold edition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Right-wing U.S. Twitter influencers, Chinese followers, and Guo Wengui as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Community Notes and War Crimes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On social media data access for researchers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitter verification shenanigans: Gold Edition as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I'm sorry, this spam network cannot generate inappropriate or offensive content as a story · 1 points
HN discussion