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
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    5 days ago

    upon looking again, it does concern me that these people all stopped posting around similar times, which in my eyes seem to be between trump’s election results and him actually coming into power. could totally be paranoia though this is all just speculation