Anthropic March 2025 — "Influence-as-a-Service" multi-persona operation
Date: 2025-04
Affected: Claude; X, Facebook, TikTok
Attack vector: agent-hijack
Category: threat-report
Severity: High

Anthropic disclosed a professional "influence-as-a-service" operation using Claude not only to generate content but to orchestrate >100 social-media bot personas, deciding when each should comment, like, or reshare authentic posts based on politically motivated persona profiles. Accounts banned.


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Architectural layers (MAESTRO):