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Post on a Platform Bot Purge

Light-mode screenshot of an X post quoting a platform announcement about purging 1.7 million reply-spam bot accounts

What This Image Shows

A light-mode screenshot of a quoted post on X. The outer post is from an account shown as Sam Parker, handle @BasedSamParker, posted twelve hours before capture. It quotes a post from an account shown as Nikita Bier, timestamped 11:48 AM, Oct 12, 2025, with 508.3K views.

The quoted announcement reads: "This week we purged 1.7 million bots engaging in reply spam. You should start noticing improvements in the coming days. We will be focusing on DM spam next." Parker's one-line comment above it reads: "All the bots that compete with the israeli bots? Lol"

The screenshot enters the backlog because coordinated inauthentic activity around this case is a documented concern in the record, including the reported growth in state-funded messaging budgets. The announcement is a platform statement about spam volume and makes no claim about who ran the accounts; the comment above it is the poster's own aside. See Censorship and Media.

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