• [email protected]English
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    1 year ago

    There are factually propagandists seeding atrocious ideas in nearly all communities, especially during and after breakaways like 4 months ago. Given the use of AI and scripting, and not to mention the nearly complete absence of countermeasures for either one on a relatively naive space like lemmy, a handful of people are definitely fomenting divisiveness. Subtle white supremacists, surreptitious state actors, website advertisers etc…

    Tl;dr: I’ve personally found a few sprinkled about.

    • goatMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Can you link any of these?

      • [email protected]English
        1·
        1 year ago

        About half of the accounts visible from this link. No clue whether they’re site advertisers or what, but they copy and paste identical threads across multiple social media platforms and steal twitter comments. It’s a pretty neat strategy, until you learn that it’s bog standard. Just the ones I noticed most recently, I usually don’t pay them any mind past determining their intent to spread divisiveness.

        • goatMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Oh, I know those guys. They aren’t being paid tho

          Yog is Dmitri, and he’s legitimately a weirdo who thinks Russia is some sort of vessel for the god-race or some shit.