Fact Check: Vote Fraud NOT Revealed -- This Is Another Foreign Spam Network's Clickbait Headlines Out Of Sync With Content - VietBF
 
 
 
News Library Technology Giải Trí Portals Tin Sốt Home

HOME

NEWS 24h

ZONE 1

ZONE 2

Phim Bộ

Phim Lẻ

Ca Nhạc

Breaking

Go Back   VietBF > USA NEWS > USA News in English


Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old  Default Fact Check: Vote Fraud NOT Revealed -- This Is Another Foreign Spam Network's Clickbait Headlines Out Of Sync With Content


Did Hank Kunneman reveal a shocking prophecy that had to do with the Arizona audit or fraudulent votes? No, that's not true

Sep 24, 2021 by: Sarah Thompson


Did Hank Kunneman reveal a shocking prophecy that had to do with the Arizona audit or fraudulent votes? No, that's not true: This video's headline is an example of a clickbait tactic of a spam network that deceptively captures the attention of an American audience with headlines that bear little relation to the content of the video promoted.

This video shows a sermon by Pastor Hank Kunneman of Lord of Hosts Church in Omaha, Nebraska, but nowhere in this sermon does Kunneman mention anything about the presidential ballot audit in Maricopa County, Arizona. The video was lifted and given a misleading headline to entice viewers to stay tuned in. The page gets to share revenue from the ads that Facebook shows to the audience watching the video.

The misleading headline appears on a video published on Facebook by a page called "Flaherty's Honeoye Falls" on September 22, 2021, with this headline:

HANK KUNNEMAN SHOCKING PROPHECY ✅ REVEALED - AZ AUDIT, FRAUDULENT VOTES! ✅ PROPHECY SEP 22, 2021

This is how the post appeared at the time of writing:



t's not clear exactly how many people are involved in this spam network, but the tactics are repeated by many pages and also seen in posts in groups run by the same network. Many of the pages show connections to Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. Many of the pages and profiles used in the network show signs that they were hacked or hijacked. Stealing an active account of a person or a business can be used to lend credibility to the foreign network's activity or to hide the network's origin.

Flaherty's Honeoye Falls is a restaurant in western New York state. They started this Facebook page on August 12, 2011. Shortly after they posted about Labor Day catering on September 3, 2021, the page was somehow taken over. On September 17, 2021, the page profile image was changed to a picture of Pastor Kent Christmas of Regeneration Nashville and the content of the page posts shifted from lunch specials to inspirational Christian memes.

Below are two screenshots to show how the theme of the content posted to the hijacked Facebook account has changed in the past weeks, with the more recent posts above. On the left are the page photos, and on the right are the videos. At the bottom are some original videos from years ago showing a "Breakfast with Santa" event at the restaurant. Now the page is posting videos with flashy tabloid thumbnails and political clickbait headlines which, like the Arizona audit teaser, misrepresent the video content.



Most of the content found in these spam networks hits political and QAnon themes. This portion of the spam network is using freebooted videos of sermons. These have been reworked with avatars in the corners, possibly to defeat AI recognition tools. Freebooting is a type of content piracy, taking someone else's content to use to make money without investing the time and production effort. This cuts out the original content creator from potential profits and growth of their audience. Some of the pastors whose content has appeared recycled on these network pages are Kat Kerr, Hank Kunneman, Kent Christmas, Robin D. Bullock, Timothy Dixon, Deborah Williams and Amanda Grace.

Some of the foreign imposters are soliciting funds through the pages. Below is an example asking for page supporters from a page called Kat Kerr Urgent and asking for donations from a page named Robin D. Bullock to a PayPal account with the Vietnamese name phamdung1102.



How to recognize foreign spam pages

The videos

The video thumbnails have bold tabloid-style graphics
When playing, animated avatar characters, narrators, animals or flags appear in the corners of the screen
The title text may include unusual type characters (homoglyphs)
The titles may include emojis or be completely in capitals
The videos may have been livestreamed even if they are old
Some videos are scheduled to stream as "events"
Poor production quality
Some videos are just podcast audio with animated human and animal avatars in the corners
A short video may repeat on a loop several times




Network activity

Video content is often used to promote a "join group" invitation
Group content is mostly posted by the same accounts
Group administration may have foreign profiles and use hacked accounts
Group content comes from the same handful of pages
Pages frequently are listed as "Gaming Video Creator"

The page transparency report on the account's home page

Page managers may be out of the U.S. but reaping ad revenue by attracting an American audience
Name of the page may have recently changed
Name of the page may not match the current content
Page may have been created very recently



Traces of former activity

Current photos and videos are often inconsistent with the earliest days of the page history
Not all the older content has been deleted
"Related Pages" sometimes give away clues that this page is one of several working the same vein

Lead Stories has written about these clickbait video spammers in the past: One page, DannLu, was taken from a Colombian pageant queen; another video claimed that it showed President Joe Biden crying at a press briefing.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tin tức
R4 Cao Thủ Võ Lâm
Release: 09-25-2021
Reputation: 9409


Profile:
Join Date: Oct 2020
Posts: 919
Last Update: None Rating: None
Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	spamfak2234 (1).png
Views:	0
Size:	118.3 KB
ID:	1877893   Click image for larger version

Name:	spamfak2234 (2).png
Views:	0
Size:	520.4 KB
ID:	1877894   Click image for larger version

Name:	spamfak2234 (3).png
Views:	0
Size:	607.9 KB
ID:	1877895   Click image for larger version

Name:	spamfak2234 (4).png
Views:	0
Size:	370.2 KB
ID:	1877896  

Click image for larger version

Name:	spamfak2234 (5).png
Views:	0
Size:	464.5 KB
ID:	1877897   Click image for larger version

Name:	spamfak2234 (6).png
Views:	0
Size:	227.6 KB
ID:	1877898  
Tin tức_is_offline
Thanks: 77
Thanked 714 Times in 455 Posts
Mentioned: 3 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 29 Post(s)
Rep Power: 4 Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5Tin tức Reputation Uy Tín Level 5
Reply

User Tag List

Thread Tools

Facebook Comments


 
iPad Tablet Menu

HOME

Breaking News

Society News

VietOversea

World News

Business News

Other News

History

Car News

Computer News

Game News

USA News

Mobile News

Music News

Movies News

Sport News

ZONE 1

ZONE 2

Phim Bộ

Phim Lẻ

Ca Nhạc

Thơ Ca

Help Me

Sport Live

Stranger Stories

Comedy Stories

Cooking Chat

Nice Pictures

Fashion

School

Travelling

Funny Videos

NEWS 24h

HOT 3 Days

NEWS 3 Days

HOT 7 Days

NEWS 7 Days

HOT 30 Days

NEWS 30 Days

Member News

Tin Sôi Nổi Nhất 24h Qua

Tin Sôi Nổi Nhất 3 Ngày Qua

Tin Sôi Nổi Nhất 7 Ngày Qua

Tin Sôi Nổi Nhất 14 Ngày Qua

Tin Sôi Nổi Nhất 30 Ngày Qua
Diễn Đàn Người Việt Hải Ngoại. Tự do ngôn luận, an toàn và uy tín. Vì một tương lai tươi đẹp cho các thế hệ Việt Nam hãy ghé thăm chúng tôi, hãy tâm sự với chúng tôi mỗi ngày, mỗi giờ và mỗi giây phút có thể. VietBF.Com Xin cám ơn các bạn, chúc tất cả các bạn vui vẻ và gặp nhiều may mắn.
Welcome to Vietnamese American Community, Vietnamese European, Canadian, Australian Forum, Vietnamese Overseas Forum. Freedom of speech, safety and prestige. For a beautiful future for Vietnamese generations, please visit us, talk to us every day, every hour and every moment possible. VietBF.Com Thank you all and good luck.


All times are GMT. The time now is 20:55.
VietBF - Vietnamese Best Forum Copyright ©2006 - 2024
User Alert System provided by Advanced User Tagging (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2024 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.
Log Out Unregistered

Page generated in 0.06480 seconds with 15 queries