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I thought it was already happening for the last 8 years?
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
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Just look at the down voted comments in any politics thread on Lemmy. Probably half of them are obvious trolls, paid or unpaid.
Sometimes they call themselves “republicans”
"It's the same picture."
Is lemmy really big enough for trolls?
It just seems so, pointless? Not very effective at reaching a lot of people.
One of the key entry points for disinformation campaigns are small communities with individuals sympathetic to the propaganda/misinformation. 10 or 15 sock puppet accounts pushing the same narrative will have an outsized impact on the discourse of a community like ours.
The sympathetic individuals then multiply the propaganda and spread it to more mainstream platforms.
It should also be noted that in first past the post voting voter suppression of one candidate is as effective or even more effective than convincing someone to vote for the other.
It's easier to dismiss deviations from centrist orthodoxy as the output of russian operatives.
Begun? They never stopped.
The ones that started around 2016 and never stopped?
Overall the efforts never stopped, specific ops tend to get aged out on a regular basis. There's always something, it's just usually someone else after a few months.
… in 2012
It's curious that this wasn't posted until after they started conducting massive bot attacks on Ukrainian journalists on platforms like YouTube etc. Give Ukraine their nukes back and this all ends tomorrow.