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Account Takeover
Account takeover is gaining control of someone’s account through stolen credentials, malware, SIM swap, or social engineering.
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Astroturfing
Astroturfing is faking grassroots support through paid or coordinated messages that hide their true sponsors.
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Bot Account
A bot account is an automated or semi-automated social profile that posts, follows, or engages with little or no direct human control.
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Brigading
Brigading is organizing an outside group to flood a community with votes, harassment, or reports to overwhelm discussion.
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Catfishing
Catfishing is creating a false online identity to deceive someone into a relationship or emotional trust.
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Clickbait
Clickbait is sensational or misleading headline framing designed primarily to maximize clicks rather than accurately summarize content.
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Comment Spam
Comment spam is unsolicited promotional or malicious comments posted at scale under content.
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Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior
Coordinated inauthentic behavior is organized use of fake or misleading accounts to manipulate public conversation or deceive platforms.
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Deepfake
A deepfake is synthetic media—often AI-generated video or audio—that convincingly depicts people saying or doing things they did not.
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Direct Message
A direct message is a private chat between accounts on a social or messaging platform.
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Disinformation
Disinformation is false information spread with intent to deceive, often as part of a coordinated campaign.
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Doxxing
Doxxing is publishing private or identifying information about a person without consent, often to harass or intimidate.
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Endorsement Disclosure
Endorsement disclosure is a clear statement that a communicator has a material connection to a brand or product being promoted.
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Engagement
Engagement is user interaction with content—such as likes, comments, shares, watch time—used as a platform metric.
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Engagement Farming
Engagement farming is posting primarily to harvest interactions that boost ranking or monetization rather than to inform.
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Engagement Pod
An engagement pod is a coordinated group that likes, comments, or shares each other’s posts to game ranking systems.
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Fake Followers
Fake followers are bot or mass-created accounts that inflate an audience size without genuine human interest.
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Finfluencer
A finfluencer is a social-media personality who creates finance or investing content for a public audience.
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Giveaway Scam
A giveaway scam promises prizes for sharing, depositing, or sending crypto that victims will not receive.
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Handle
A handle is a unique username identifier on a platform, often shown as @name.
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Impersonation Account
An impersonation account is a profile pretending to be another person, brand, or organization without authorization.
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Influencer
An influencer is a creator whose audience trust or attention is used to shape opinions or purchases, often commercially.
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Influencer Fraud
Influencer fraud is deceptive monetization practices such as fake followers, fake engagement, or false reach claims sold to brands.
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Livestream Shopping
Livestream shopping is selling products through live video with real-time chat and impulse checkout flows.
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Mass Reporting
Mass reporting is coordinated misuse of report tools to silence accounts by triggering automated or reviewer enforcement.
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Misinformation
Misinformation is false or misleading information spread regardless of whether the sharer intends to deceive.
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Nonconsensual Intimate Image
A nonconsensual intimate image is a sexual or intimate image distributed or threatened without the depicted person’s consent.
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Paid Verification
Paid verification is a platform program where users pay a subscription or fee associated with a verification-like badge or perks.
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Rage Bait
Rage bait is content engineered to provoke anger so users engage and amplify it through comments and shares.
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Recommendation Algorithm
A recommendation algorithm ranks and suggests content to increase relevance, retention, or other platform objectives.
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Shadowban
Shadowban is informal language for reduced distribution that a user infers when reach drops without a clear notice.
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Social Media
Social media are interactive platforms where users create, share, and engage with content and social graphs.
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Social Proof Manipulation
Social proof manipulation fabricates popularity signals—reviews, followers, or testimonials—to induce trust and purchases.
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Sockpuppet Account
A sockpuppet account is a fake identity used to praise, attack, or argue while hiding the operator’s real affiliation.
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Sponsored Content
Sponsored content is media created or distributed in exchange for payment or other valuable consideration.
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Undisclosed Sponsorship
Undisclosed sponsorship is promoting a product or service for compensation without clearly revealing the material connection.
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User-Generated Content
User-generated content is media created and posted by platform users rather than solely by the platform operator.
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Verification Badge
A verification badge is the visual marker platforms display on accounts that passed a verification program.
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Verified Account
A verified account is a profile marked by a platform as meeting that platform’s identity or notability checks at a point in time.
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