Jack Preston King
Jul 21, 2017 · 1 min read

Not sure if that was a rhetorical question, or if you’re asking me how bots are being disseminated here on Medium. I’ll answer just in case… Many, maybe most of us have, since January or so, gained an average of 30 to 50 new followers per day, pretty much all of whom fit the profile in your article. Take 50 times the millions of real Medium users here, and that’s an astronomical number of fake accounts flooding the platform. So far, the bots appear to be sleeping. All we’ve really seen them do so far is follow real users (and maybe each other, I haven’t checked that out). It’s like watching a hostile foreign army amassing on one’s border. They’re not shooting​ yet, but their presence is not an accident. My guess is they’re being positioned in advance of the 2018 midterm elections. We’ll see. I would be comforted to hear something/anything from Ev Williams and company letting us know Medium Staff are aware this is happening and are out renting Bladerunner as we speak.. But so far Team Medium has been silent. Hopefully not Silent Running, to continue with the Hollywood sci-fi references… I’ll follow you now so I’m sure not to miss your future articles this topic. Thanks!

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