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How Russia is Influencing US Citizens on Social Media. Russian Intelligence Document "Guerrilla Media Campaign in the US" [Translated] Page 3 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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How Russia is Influencing US Voters. Russian Intelligence Document "Guerrilla Media Campaign in the US" [Translated] Page 5

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It’s pretty obvious that a major Lemmy instance is literally a training ground for these recruits

Is there any evidence to substantiate this claim, or are we doing the "Everyone on the instance I don't like is a Russian bot, because they disagree with me" line of reasoning?

“Blue MAGA” was a pretty obvious one they seemed to workshop on Lemmy.

Wasn't this in response to the dead-end Biden guys who were growing increasingly hysterical as he tanked out in the polls? Lemmy's gotten significantly more normal since Harris took the top of the ticket and the numbers have rebounded.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nah, more like "Russian bots exist and some people I disagree with are Russian bots." Which is pretty much the entire premise of the article.

It's also pretty easy to tell the difference IMO. The trolls tend to just do nothing but troll and flame. They don't really spend much time engaging on other topics.

As far as why I think Lemmy is a training ground? Call it a hunch. Obviously I don't have a notarized letter from a troll farm saying that they are in control of a certain worldnews forum, but a lot of the usual suspects fit a bit too neatly into that box to not raise an eyebrow. There are some other patterns as well but its definitely all circumstantial.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It’s also pretty easy to tell the difference IMO.

Sounds like something a bot would say.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Is there any evidence to substantiate this claim, or are we doing the “Everyone on the instance I don’t like is a Russian bot, because they disagree with me” line of reasoning?

It's option B in all cases.