Lead review
Suspicious score 80/100 · text cluster · 4 accounts · 4 posts
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First seen Sat 14 Nov 22:31 UTC, last Sat 14 Nov 22:31 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
Organic confidence high · recommended: monitor
Four accounts posted an identical MARTA Route 23 service alert within one minute. All accounts disclose they are part of the same "Unofficial MARTA® relay" operating via atltransit.live. The coordination is transparent and disclosed, consistent with an automated transit-alert network rather than accounts posing as independent users.
Narrative: MARTA Route 23 has multiple cancellations: southbound from Chamblee Station (West Loop) at 5:31 PM and 9:48 PM; northbound from Arts Center Station at 6:40 PM, 9:00 PM, and 10:40 PM; southbound from Brookhaven Station at 8:06 PM.
Strongest innocent explanation considered: A single operator runs a disclosed network of automated transit-alert accounts (one all-routes account plus station-specific accounts for Brookhaven, Chamblee, and Arts Center), all branded as the "Unofficial MARTA® relay" and pointing to atltransit.live. When Route 23 is cancelled, the same alert is pushed to every station account served by that route, which explains the identical text and simultaneous posting. The accounts do not present as independent users; their bios openly state they are part of the same relay.
- :copy_paste = 100% — all four posts are verbatim copies (P1-P4)
- :synchrony = 100% — all posted within one minute (P1-P4)
- :creation_burst = 100% — all accounts created within the same 72 hours (A1-A4)
- :template_bios = 75% — near-duplicate bios across accounts (A1-A4)
- :cross_cluster = 75% — accounts appear in other flagged clusters (A1-A4)
Sources
| Domain | Trust | Why |
|---|---|---|
| atltransit.live | low | Registered 2026-07-02 (135 days old) Registrar: NameCheap, Inc. Not on VIGINUM/CheckFirst propaganda lists Appears in account bios as successor to marta.fail, an "Unofficial MARTA® relay" |
Independent news check
| Claim | Finding | Why | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARTA Route 23 cancelled at Chamblee, Arts Center, Brookhaven | no coverage found | Routine bus route cancellations are typically not covered by news media; absence of coverage neither confirms nor refutes the claim. | Q1Q2 |
- Q1 searched “MARTA Route 23 cancelled Chamblee Arts Center Brookhaven” (en): 0 articles
- Q2 searched “MARTA Route 23 cancelled” (en): 0 articles
Evidence-backed claims
- MARTA Route 23 cancellations at Chamblee, Arts Center, and Brookhaven stations at the listed times P1P2P3P4Q1Q2
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b, prompt v6, Sat 23:25 UTC, 4 model calls, 47.6 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
1 minutes, peak 4 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 | 100% | ≥ 50% | yes | 100% of the activity happened within a single minute. |
| coordination | repetition | 1.0 | ≥ 2.0 | no | Each account posted this 1.0 times on average. |
| coordination | cross_cluster | 75% | ≥ 50% | yes | 75% 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 | 100% | ≥ 40% | yes | 100% of the accounts were created within the same 72 hours. |
| account | low_reach | 0% | ≥ 60% | no | 0% of the accounts have fewer than 10 followers. |
| account | empty_profiles | 0% | ≥ 50% | no | 0% of the accounts have no profile picture or no bio. |
| account | template_bios | 75% | ≥ 30% | yes | 75% 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 (4)
Median account age: 716 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| account 1 | 718 | 233 | 0 | 1 | active |
| account 2 | 716 | 14 | 0 | 1 | active |
| account 3 | 716 | 18 | 0 | 1 | active |
| account 4 | 716 | 13 | 0 | 1 | active |
Clusters sharing accounts with this one (24 h)
| Tier | Kind | Shared message or link | Shared accounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suspicious | text | Route 23: Northbound from Arts Center Station is cancelled at 5:00 PM, 7:20 PM, 9:40 PM, 11:20 PM. S | 4 |
| Suspicious | text | Arts Center, Elevator 2 (Concourse to Bus Bay to Plaza Level) is back in service. | 2 |
| Suspicious | text | Arts Center Station, Elevator 2 (Concourse to Bus Bay to Plaza Level) remains out of service. Use el | 2 |
| Suspicious | text | Arts Center, Elevator 2 (Concourse to Bus Bay to Plaza Level) is out of service. Use elevator on W. | 2 |
| Suspicious | text | Arts Center, Elevator 2 (Concourse to Bus Bay to Plaza Level) is out of service. Use elevator on W. | 2 |
| Suspicious | text | Arts Center, Elevator 2 (Concourse to Bus Bay to Plaza Level) is back in service. | 2 |
Human review
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