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		honksillet on Jan 31, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook Referred to Kids as Young as Five as “Wha... Just a thought. What if facebook had fake accounts on hacker news to up and downvote new items. Would hacker news be able to identify it and if so would they let the rest of us know?

50656E6973 on Jan 31, 2019 [–]

Highly doubtful that could be detected.

Here's some interesting research on that topic

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/38wl43/we_used_sock...

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