Chameleon Channels: Measuring YouTube Accounts Repurposed for Deception and Profit
2025/07/21 by Alejandro Cuevas, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Cuevas, Alejandro +3 · 4 voices
Psychology · Computer Science · #Deception detection and forensic psychology #Spam and Phishing Detection #Network Security and Intrusion Detection
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.16045
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Documentation and replication code for the paper. V3 changes: - Updated R script and README to reflect changes in the installation of the `dsl` package.
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- YouTube channels are being sold and repurposed to spread scams and disinformation [lemmy, 22 points, 1 comments]
- Creators pour years into building a following, but in a growing underground market, you can simply buy accounts and inherit their audience. In our new pre-print, we find this practice of repurposing a [bsky, 9 points, 1 comments]
- Chameleon Channels:Measuring YouTube Account Repurposed for Deception and Profit [hn, 1 points, 0 comments]
- A new #study sheds light on repurposing of infrastructure by malign actors. 1 in every 400 YouTube channels has been sold to promote #disinformation or SPAM. arxiv.org/abs/2507.16045 #emergingthreats [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]
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