Lead review
Suspicious score 50/100 · text cluster · 10 accounts · 17 posts
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First seen Sat 14 Nov 08:52 UTC, last Sat 14 Nov 09:11 UTC.
Coordinated activity by accounts with several signs of being inauthentic.
This is a lead for a human reviewer, not an accusation. Signals are measured; thresholds are starting values evaluated on the metrics page.
Account profiles fetched: 100%.
Nemotron investigation
Insufficient evidence confidence low · recommended: human review
Ten Bluesky accounts posted near-identical, name-swapped fundraiser appeals within a 16-minute window on 2026-11-14. No cause, organizer, amount, deadline, or link is included. The pack shows strong template repetition and empty profiles, but also aged accounts, low synchrony, no declared automation, and no external links, so the evidence does not support a definitive staged or organic classification.
Narrative: A generic request asking named individuals to support an unspecified fundraiser, repeated by ten accounts with only the addressee changed (for example, "Hi clunse, Please support our fundraiser.🙏" in P1 and "Hi Erica, Please support our fundraiser.🙏" in P10).
Strongest innocent explanation considered: Friends, family, or associates of the same fundraiser each posting a similar personal appeal to people they know, a commonplace and legitimate form of social-media amplification.
- Coordination indicators: S:copy_paste = 100% across P1-P10; S:empty_profiles = 100% (A1-A10 have no avatar and no bio); S:cross_cluster = 90% (accounts also appear in at least two other flagged clusters within 24 h); S:low_reach = 60% (six accounts have fewer than 10 followers).
- Organic indicators: accounts are aged (created 221-803 days ago; S:new_accounts = 0%); activity spread over about 16 minutes with S:synchrony = 18%, below the 50% threshold; S:declared_automation = 0%; no links are shared; S:known_domains = 0%; content is benign and non-political.
- Limitation: the pack contains no evidence of who operates the accounts, no deceptive content, no scam outcome, and no proof of inauthentic intent. Coordination alone is not proof of inauthenticity.
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b, prompt v5, Sat 09:30 UTC, 2 model calls, 43.7 s · 100% of its references checked against the evidence. Evidence ids: P post, A account, I image, V video, W web page, Q news search, N news article, S detector signal.
Activity per minute
20 minutes, peak 2 posts in one minute.
Signals
| Category | Signal | Value | Threshold | Fired | What it means here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coordination | copy_paste | 100% | ≥ 50% | yes | 100% of posts repeat near-identical text from another account. |
| coordination | synchrony | 18% | ≥ 50% | no | 18% of the activity happened within a single minute. |
| coordination | repetition | 1.7 | ≥ 2.0 | no | Each account posted this 1.7 times on average. |
| coordination | cross_cluster | 90% | ≥ 50% | yes | 90% of the accounts also appear in at least two other flagged clusters (24 h). |
| account | removed_accounts | 0% | ≥ 20% | no | 0% of the accounts are no longer served by Bluesky (suspended or deleted). |
| account | new_accounts | 0% | ≥ 50% | no | 0% of the accounts were created in the last 30 days. |
| account | creation_burst | 30% | ≥ 40% | no | 30% of the accounts were created within the same 72 hours. |
| account | low_reach | 60% | ≥ 60% | yes | 60% of the accounts have fewer than 10 followers. |
| account | empty_profiles | 100% | ≥ 50% | yes | 100% of the accounts have no profile picture or no bio. |
| account | template_bios | 0% | ≥ 30% | no | 0% of the accounts have a bio that near-duplicates another account's bio. |
| provenance | known_accounts | 0 | ≥ 1 | no | 0 account(s) are on IFTAS's public list of suspected Portal Kombat accounts. |
| provenance | listed_servers | 0% | ≥ 30% | no | 0% of the accounts are bridged from Mastodon servers on IFTAS's list. |
| provenance | known_domains | 0 | ≥ 1 | no | Links to 0 domain(s) on VIGINUM/CheckFirst propaganda lists. |
| provenance | pravda_sources | 0 | ≥ 1 | no | Links to 0 Telegram channel(s) that Pravda sites republish (a lead, not proof). |
| disclosure | declared_automation | 0% | ≥ 50% | no | 0% of the accounts say in their profile that they are bots or automated feeds. |
Accounts (10, 10 no longer on Bluesky)
Median account age: 794 days. Names are shown only for accounts on IFTAS's public list or already removed by Bluesky; the team sees all.
| Account | Age (days) | Followers | Follows | Posts here | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mauriyoung.bsky.social Mahmod | 561 | 3 | 2 | 3 | removed from Bluesky |
| thaissilvax.bsky.social Mahmod | 800 | 9 | 11 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| cx70.bsky.social Mahmod | 804 | 1 | 1 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| rfssss.bsky.social Ma7mod | 794 | 1 | 1 | 2 | removed from Bluesky |
| pedroj0.bsky.social Mahmod | 791 | 16 | 12 | 2 | removed from Bluesky |
| minhaz1612.bsky.social Ma7mod | 488 | 14 | 56 | 2 | removed from Bluesky |
| kashimaroh.bsky.social Mahmod | 777 | 5 | 6 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| shuanny.bsky.social Ma7mod | 802 | 6 | 8 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
| cauanzinn.bsky.social Mahmod | 803 | 15 | 15 | 3 | removed from Bluesky |
| shopon29.bsky.social Ma7mod | 223 | 14 | 8 | 1 | removed from Bluesky |
Sample posts from already-public cases
| Time (UTC) | Account | Text |
|---|---|---|
| 08:52:34 | mauriyoung.bsky.social | Hi clunse, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
| 08:55:15 | thaissilvax.bsky.social | Hi Remy, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
| 08:57:02 | cx70.bsky.social | Hi Sally, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
| 08:57:31 | rfssss.bsky.social | Hi ACARS, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
| 09:00:43 | pedroj0.bsky.social | Hi Goblert, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
| 09:01:33 | minhaz1612.bsky.social | Hi RUSD, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
| 09:02:31 | kashimaroh.bsky.social | Hi ryan, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
| 09:05:54 | shuanny.bsky.social | Hi echo, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
| 09:07:03 | cauanzinn.bsky.social | Hi Charlie, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
| 09:08:53 | shopon29.bsky.social | Hi Erica, Please support our fundraiser.🙏 open |
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