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A self-proclaimed data enthusiast calling themselves ‘ThinkingOne’ has made a huge database containing 201 million pieces of user data from X freely available. The data is said to have come from two previous leaks and includes email addresses, locations and profile data of users of the social media platform.

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[–] TransSynthesist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 139 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think they mean 10 million users, 30 million abandoned accounts, and 160 million bots.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems like a dedicated person might be able to prove that. Go through the available data and see what % of leaked accounts actually point to a real person, or even a unique person. If it's mostly bots you'd see that pretty quick

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 26 points 1 day ago

Check how many accounts pushing republican propaganda only post during St. Petersburg business hours... 🙃