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passenger@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoDon’t forget that Putin’s troll factories are a proven fact and the employees are spread throughout the internet. I would not be surprised if this is just what some of these guys do for a living.
sudneo@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
If they do, they are really bad at it. They are basically a close community and they got isolated even in a tiny community like (the wider) Lemmy.
I do remember a fun anecdote where a post was shared from a propaganda website, one of those that would appear here. The article was clearly faked, the alleged “Ukrainian Nazi profile” on Instagram didn’t exist, the same news couldn’t be found in Russian (only in English) and the text was the same across 3-4 random websites. They were discussing it seriously of course, but between them, which again, to me suggest more an echo chamber rather than a deliberate effort to push propaganda.
Either way, I did block generously :)