On-chain investigator ZachXBT has accused top crypto influencer Professor Crypto of using bots to manipulate his social media metrics.<\/p>\n
Following the allegations, the crypto influencer has deactivated his account without giving a response to the public.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, the on-chain sleuth addressed<\/a> the Youtuber, telling him to \u201clay off the thousands of bots\u201d used on his social media platforms to \u201cdeceive people into thinking you have an influence.\u201d<\/p>\n He also implied that this behavior could violate a United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rule prohibiting the sale or purchase of fake social media influence, including followers or views generated by bots or hijacked accounts.<\/p>\n Professor Crypto, known for his 1.34 million YouTube subscribers, has not responded publicly to the accusations. However, he has reportedly\u00a0deactivated<\/a> his X account after receiving a community note calling him out for \u201cemploying fake engagement strategies\u201d and hiding several replies, including ZachXBT\u2019s, from his posts.<\/p>\n The influencer also removed several posts showing him accepting the \u201cBest Content Creator\u201d award at the DeGen Summit in Singapore on September 17. The event, a side affair of TOKEN2049, celebrated \u201cKey Opinion Leaders\u201d (KOLs), individuals whose opinions are influential within the crypto industry.<\/p>\n His YouTube channel, where he reviews cryptocurrency exchanges, wallets, meme coins, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), has been active since August 2018. Meanwhile, his now-deactivated X account, created in February 2018, had 132,000 followers but only 102 posts, with the earliest dating back to August 14, 2018.<\/p>\n Community members on X have raised further concerns. Acerbic crypto commentator NewsyJohnson claimed to have \u201czero mutuals\u201d with Professor Crypto and\u00a0accused<\/a> him of having bots follow, like, and comment on his content, adding, \u201cI don\u2019t think he has any human following.\u201d<\/p>\n Others, like NFT artist Matthew Varnell, questioned<\/a> his credibility, saying, \u201cWho the hell is Professor Crypto?\u201d Laurence Day, co-founder of Wildcat Labs, noted,<\/a> \u201cI have been here longer than the stars have burned, and I have precisely one mutual with this account (someone I added within the last week).\u201d<\/p>\n The incident comes soon after an FTC decision in August to ban marketers from using fake reviews or other misleading practices, including AI-generated content, to promote products and services.<\/p>\n In a statement quoted by CNBC, FTC Chair Lina Khan said<\/a> at the time that fake reviews \u201cwaste people\u2019s time and money\u201d and distort the marketplace. The rule also prohibits companies from exaggerating their influence by paying for bots to inflate follower counts.<\/p>\n The post Award-Winning Crypto Influencer Deactivates X Account Following Bot Use Allegations<\/a> appeared first on CryptoPotato<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On-chain investigator ZachXBT has accused top crypto influencer Professor Crypto of using bots to manipulate his social media metrics. Following the allegations, the crypto influencer has deactivated his account without giving a response to the public. Fake Engagement Strategies In a post on X, the on-chain sleuth addressed the Youtuber, telling him to \u201clay off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}FTC Violation and Community Reactions<\/h2>\n