"the entire backend used to manage its phone farm - so it provides an extraordinary glimpse at how the service is actually being used to manipulate social media at scale. Speaking to 404 on condition of anonymity, the hacker said they can "see the phones in use, which manager [computers controlling the phones] they had, which TikTok accounts they were assigned, proxies in use (and their passwords), and pending tasks. As well as the link to control devices for each manager." "
"The hacker also shared a list of over 400 TikTok accounts operated by Doublespeed's phone farm, about half of which were actively promoting products. Most of them, the publication reports, did so without disclosing that the posts were ads - a direct violation of TikTok's terms of use, not to mention the Federal Trade Commission's digital advertising regulations. Doublespeed's TikTok accounts ran a gamut of different cons, promoting language learning apps, supplements, massage products, dating apps and more."
Doublespeed operates a large phone farm that controls hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts, mainly on TikTok. A hacker accessed the startup's backend, revealing managers, device links, assigned accounts, proxies and pending tasks. The hacker shared a list of over 400 TikTok accounts, about half actively promoting products. Many posts failed to disclose paid promotions, violating TikTok terms and FTC advertising rules. The accounts promoted language-learning apps, supplements, massage tools, dating services and other products, sometimes using AI-generated personas posting repeatedly. The operation poses risks for disinformation, financial scams, and coordinated inauthentic influence without apparent enforcement from TikTok.
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