A funny case study with Internet trolls: a Polish company selling a Signal clone sued security researchers who pointed out some security issues. The company also led very aggressive PR campaign, with dozens of YT influencers, hundreds of fake "this app is great" comments under articles.
People promptly noticed all their comments can be easily identified by an unique feature...
Most of their comments have used Unicode HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS (U+2026) which is a single … character instead of ... (three ASCII dots) which you would normally type in a comment field.
A working theory is that they were writing these comments in Word for accounting 😂
TBH I suspect it might be also a some mobile OS with auto-type feature, because I saw comments using U+2026 that clearly weren't from that group.
@kravietz It’s Alt+K on Linux with Polish keyboard layout and you can easily get it on Android by long pressing dot
Didn't know that trick, useful to save a few characters on Mastodon :) But these guys didn't really seem to be Linux users, or show any significant tech sophistication...
@kravietz
>which you would normally type in a comment field
I only type “...” (three dots) when attempting to impersonate someone.