Doublespeed Phone Farm Has Been Hacked
TL;DR
Doublespeed's phone farm, used for AI-generated social media accounts, has been hacked, exposing backend operations and revealing large-scale manipulation tactics on platforms like TikTok.
Source: Futurism
Backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Doublespeed offers customers a unique service: access to a massive phone farm that could be used to operate hundreds of AI-generated social media accounts. 404 Media reports that Doublespeed has been hacked. This wasn’t just one account associated with the startup, but the entire backend used to manage its phone farm — and it provides an extraordinary glimpse at how the service is actually being used to manipulate social media at scale. So far, Doublespeed is only active on TikTok, though it has plans to expand to Instagram, Reddit, and X-formerly-Twitter. Full Story