Whether or not you consider it “disinfo,” doesn’t it smell rather like astroturf? Note that [email protected] is one of the targeted communities.

Abridged from the original post.


cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39655060

What they seem to have in common is:

  • Way more posts than comments.
  • Almost exclusively posting news articles.
  • The vast majority of the articles are critical of Russia or China.
  • Virtually always posting to the same few communities. Often there’s overlap in the communities the accounts target.
  • Consistent weekly output.
Username Start End
[email protected] May 2022 Dec. 2024
[email protected] Apr. 2023 Jun. 2024
[email protected] Apr. 2024 Jan. 2025
[email protected] Jun. 2024 Dec. 2024
[email protected] Jan. 2025 Apr. 2025
@[email protected] Jan. 2025
@[email protected] Jan. 2025
@[email protected] Aug. 2025
@[email protected] Nov. 2025
    • lumpenproletariat@quokk.au
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      3 months ago

      Why did you screenshot someone for posting a quote from an article they linked to as the source for their comment?

      Do you not understand how quotes work? They don’t make you an AI.

      Although you do love to copy and paste large walls of ghost written, conversation terminating propaganda text all the time, so maybe you are a bot? 🤔

      • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlOP
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        3 months ago

        These accounts have been around long enough and called out often enough that the mods must want them posting to their communities. And yes, the one on an “anarchist” instance is cringe.