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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

lmaoo

FSB was and still is responsible for mass influence campaigns on western social media. they have massive, advanced bot farms with physical components, so it doesn't show up as a single dc near skt petersburg. look up internet research agency

example of that kind of activity (busted) https://therecord.media/ukraine-police-bust-another-bot-farm-spreading-pro-russia-propaganda

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 6 months ago

oh yeah I'm aware of the trollfarm problem in general, just meant I had no specific data in this specific instance

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

well to be a little bit more specific, wasn't that crazy that in first months of war (after march 2022 i mean. but some of that showed even before that, and after 2014) antivaxxer fb accounts started spreading antiukrainian propaganda. what a coincidence

dot eth crowd gotta be similarly compromised, among some others

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago

nothing specific, it just intensified due to war

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