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johnbuluba / Yatcobot

Yatcobot (Yet another twitter contest bot) is the most advanced and configurable bot for twitter contests and giveaways
GNU General Public License v2.0
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Twitter account being used to promote someone's agenda? #1

Closed ummokbro closed 6 years ago

ummokbro commented 7 years ago

This might sound crazy, but either the code within this project is malicious or someone is using an exploit within the code to promote their own posts. I noticed that over the last 12 hours or so my bot has retweeted many pro-liberal and pro-black movement posts, none of which are related AT ALL to contests and DO NOT contain any of the keywords in my configuration files. The output of the yatcobot script also gives no notification that it had retweeted these posts. Check out a few examples attatched.

I would highly recommend that someone check out the code to this project and that anyone using it stop immediately. Clearly something fishy is going on.

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johnbuluba commented 7 years ago

Hello ummokbro I can assure you there is no malicious code (its open source so even if you dont believe me you can read the code yourself). I believe there is a problem with your configuration file. Can you share your config.json ? (Remove the api keys before you share it)