They’re trying really hard to make their AI-plagiarized slop “news” site happen. You’ll see posts linking to primestories24 [dot] com but they’re AI slop regurgitating likely legit news articles. Every “reporter” has some generic profile that is most likely the system prompt used for everything they “write”.

If you see a post to that domain, report it as spam. The accounts all look similar to this:

This list isn’t comprehensive.

Update: They are now using sockpuppet alts to vote/boost their posts. Just found @Babrah28@ttrpg.network that way and, surprise surprise, it was registered the same time as the latest batch.

Note: Technically the above is violating rule 7 if you consider spambots to be members. I don’t, but if this is a problem, let me know, and I’ll remove that part.

The domain was registered in May of 2026 and is roughly when these accounts started popping up.

   Domain Name: PRIMESTORIES24.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 3105727536_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.web4africa.net
   Registrar URL: http://hostafrica.com/
   Updated Date: 2026-06-19T10:01:29Z
   Creation Date: 2026-05-31T12:16:00Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2027-05-31T12:16:00Z
   Registrar: Host Africa (Pty.) Ltd.
   Registrar IANA ID: 664
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web4africa.net
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6465850088
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Name Server: DAN1.HOST-WW.NET
   Name Server: DAN2.HOST-WW.NET
   DNSSEC: unsigned

Admins, I’m aware Lemmy is severely lacking in moderation capability, but one thing it does have is domain blocking. That prevents posting to those domains and it now seems to prevent links to those domains from federating in.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    4 months ago

    OP, you can pull more WHOIS data from the whois.web4africa.net WHOIS server for that domain. You only did a single-level WHOIS lookup to the North American WHOIS server; whatever WHOIS client you used doesn’t default to recurse.

    The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and
Registrars.
Domain Name: PRIMESTORIES24.COM
Registry Domain ID: 3105727536_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.web4africa.net
Registrar URL: http://www.web4africa.net/
Updated Date: 2026-06-19T10:01:30Z
Creation Date: 2026-05-31T12:16:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2027-05-31T12:16:00Z
Registrar: Web4Africa Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 664
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry
Registrant Name: Olawale Ashorobi
Registrant Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Street: 32 Glory Drive   
Registrant City: Port Harcourt
Registrant State/Province: River State
Registrant Postal Code: 503101
Registrant Country: NG
Registrant Phone: +234.8032156631
Registrant Phone Ext: 
Registrant Fax: 
Registrant Fax Ext: 
Registrant Email: waleswale13@gmail.com
Registry Admin ID: Not Available From Registry
Admin Name: Olawale Ashorobi
Admin Organization: 
Admin Street: 32 Glory Drive  
Admin City: Port Harcourt
Admin State/Province: River State
Admin Postal Code: 503101
Admin Country: NG
Admin Phone: +234.8032156631
Admin Phone Ext: 
Admin Fax: 
Admin Fax Ext: 
Admin Email: waleswale13@gmail.com
Registry Tech ID: Not Available From Registry
Tech Name: Olawale Ashorobi
Tech Organization: 
Tech Street: 32 Glory Drive  
Tech City: Port Harcourt
Tech State/Province: River State
Tech Postal Code: 503101
Tech Country: NG
Tech Phone: +234.8032156631
Tech Phone Ext: 
Tech Fax: 
Tech Fax Ext: 
Tech Email: waleswale13@gmail.com
Name Server: dan1.host-ww.net
Name Server: dan2.host-ww.net
DNSSEC: Unsigned
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@web4africa.net
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1-646-666-9664
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/

    This does fit with the other material I commented here referencing an “Olawale Israel Ashorobi”.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      Registrant Name: Olawale Ashorobi

      Registrant Organization: REDACTED FOR PRIVACY

      Tech Street: 32 Glory Drive

      Tech City: Port Harcourt

      Tech State/Province: River State

      Tech Postal Code: 503101

      Tech Country: NG

      Tech Phone: +234.8032156631

      REDACTED FOR PRIVACY

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      There were various Reddit automod bots that went after these, but then you had people trying to evade them by using one of the zillions of link shortener sites out there, so then you also have to ban link shorteners or try to resolve all the links (which may be a good idea as well, but saying that it’s a more-complicated problem than initially meets the eye).

      Also, I was banned in a few communities by an automod bot on the Threadiverse, and given that it happened when I posted some comment linking to a number of sites, I assume that one of the URLs must have tripped some automod list, so I’m a little irritable about bots running permabans on blacklisted sites, as users can inadvertently link to them.

  • PineRune@lemmy.world
    0·
    4 months ago

    Just in general I’ve noticed an uptick in posts that link to a news article of sorts without having anything else included in the post. Just a clickbait title and a link, likely to draw traffic to their website. I’m getting really sick of finding an interesting post just to be met with a “Subscribe to view article” message instead.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      01·
      4 months ago

      probably the same kind of spammers that also does this on reddit. i was a forum where they have discussing driving traffic through the site by using methods to just spam on multiple threads/instances.