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The Dead Internet

Diagram of three trust layers: personal trust from direct experience and relationships at bottom, institutional trust from organizations and governance in middle, network trust from protocols and consensus at top, within overall dynamic trust environment.
TRUST LAYERS: PERSONAL TRUST VS. INSTITUTIONAL TRUST VS. NETWORK TRUST
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Infographic titled The Verification Paradox showing intended versus exploited uses of blue checks, follower counts, HTTPS, and reviews, plus mechanisms of social engineering, algorithmic gaming, and trust erosion.
THE VERIFICATION PARADOX: WHY TRUST SIGNALS ARE EXPLOITED
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Infographic titled split into left red panel showing a hacker injecting a server and process from benign image plus trigger to incorrect model output, and right brown panel showing trash pile with low-quality text bubbles and process from web data plus synthetic slop to degraded generic output, ending with robot icon and note on unreliable models.
DATA POISONING VS. DATA POLLUTION: TWO THREATS TO AI INTEGRITY
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Split infographic titled contrasting a malicious attack panel on the left with red hacker icons and a systemic degradation panel on the right with worker and robot icons, including intent, method, example, and outcome steps for each.
DATA POISONING VS. DATA POLLUTION: MALICE VS. MESS
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Infographic comparing verifiable links versus unverifiable screenshots on friction, reach, psychology, and information degradation.
THE SCREENSHOT ECONOMY: WHY UNVERIFIABLE IMAGES WIN
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Split infographic contrasting quality path to castle and engagement path to casino under platform engine claw.
PLATFORM INCENTIVES MAP: WHY “QUALITY” LOSES TO “ENGAGEMENT”
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Infographic explaining engagement fraud tools, four-step manufacturing process, and impacts on social metrics and ad spend.
ENGAGEMENT FRAUD 101: HOW FAKE POPULARITY IS MANUFACTURED
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Infographic titled showing a four-step flowchart of advertisers spending money, ad tech ecosystem, dead web of synthetic content and bots, and fraudsters profiting.
AD FRAUD’S ROLE IN THE “DEAD” WEB
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Infographic titled listing tiered services for clicks, likes, and comments with quantities, prices, and outcomes.
CLICK FARMS, LIKE FARMS, COMMENT FARMS: THE SERVICE CATALOG
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Diagram titled showing flows from human attention capture through platforms and engagement tactics to data collection, algorithmic sorting, ad auctions, advertisers, and revenue reinvestment forming a cycle of profitable distraction.
THE ATTENTION ARBITRAGE MACHINE
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