Major League Baseball is trying to figure out how to beat the bots, and when we’re talking about bots in this case, it’s porn bots. Twitter handle The Athletic highlighted posts from users Jessica Cox and Barbara Dustin Yuhas sporting suggestive emojis and chatting about non-baseball related activities.
Suspecting the activity coming from spam accounts inviting users to visit adult web cams, Buchanan reached out to MLB and Facebook for comment. A big audience to spam with MLB live streaming games on Facebook.
— Zach Buchanan (@ZHBuchanan) April 26, 2018
.“This is a concern and we are working with Facebook to ensure the proper safeguards are in place,” an MLB spokesperson told The Athletic.
A Facebook spokesperson vowed a specific line of attack to eliminate the scourge.
“There is no place for activity such as this during these MLB broadcasts. These comments were posted by inauthentic accounts, which are not allowed on our platform. We have deleted these accounts and are working to prevent this type of abuse from occurring again.”
Good luck with that. For every bot you destroy, two more will probably pop up in its place. As long as there’s a way to infiltrate any system, someone will figure out how to do so.
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