Whether or not you consider it “disinfo,” doesn’t it smell rather like astroturf? Note that !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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 tardigrada@beehaw.org May 2022 Dec. 2024 0x815@feddit.de Apr. 2023 Jun. 2024 thelucky8@beehaw.org Apr. 2024 Jan. 2025 0x815@feddit.org Jun. 2024 Dec. 2024 Anyone@slrpnk.net Jan. 2025 Apr. 2025 @randomname@scribe.disroot.org Jan. 2025 – @Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org Jan. 2025 – @Scotty@scribe.disroot.org Aug. 2025 – @Sepia@mander.xyz Nov. 2025 –
Idonno, that someone shares a lot of news articles and doesn’t comment as much doesn’t seem that odd… I agree it’s a bit weird it’s no memes or anything, but I can see lemmy users honestly not doing memes.
I do agree, it smells like astroturfing tho - it is just beyond what a quite normal user would do
I’ve run across one other user who fits the general pattern, the important difference being that they aren’t monomaniacly focused on China bad and Russia bad: @schizoidman@lemmy.zip (previously schizoidman@lemm.ee & schizoidman@lemmy.ml).