[OC] Nearly every day, two users on r/Conservative account for more than 30% of new posts. Sometimes exceeding 50%. (Take 2. 6 images)
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Posted in r/dataisbeautiful by u/Ok-Stand-2128 • 1,248 points and 88 comments

I don’t read r/conservative much but what I’ve seen is they keep banning actual conservatives because they correctly call out what Trump is doing on things where it’s not about left and right but right and wrong.

Some people are saying that it could be coincidental. OP asks why would the two accounts who post so regularly just happen to both stop at the same time on that day.

  • ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1027·
    3 days ago

    One comment:

    Allow me to weigh in here as a Russian.

    Moscow lost power due to Ukrainian drone attacks

    I am sorry, /u/Ok-Stand-2128, but this premise from the post looks wrong. Could you please share your sources on this? I could find no info about an outage in the city of Moscow on that night. There was only an outage in Moscow region: more specifically, in Zhukovsky, a city with a population of about 100,000 people. (An analogy would be an outage in Albany in the state of New York, while New York City had no outage.) I’ll share my sources in a reply because Reddit sometimes deletes links to Russian websites.

    I can imagine no reason for this outage to influence any Russian bots. Zhukovsky is not an IT hub.

    Also, the fifth image shows that the two users in question usually start posting at 2 a.m. Moscow time, the middle of the night, not a typical workday start.

    The increasing tendency of US leftists to assume Russian influence behind the conservatives seems like a rehash/mirror of the Cold War anti-communist paranoia. The profiles themselves clearly behave bot-like:

    It’s definitely Ask4MD, but I figured the other one was According-Activity87. If you go on conserv sub right now half the first page is both of them posting. Both have extremely easy MOs to follow. Ask4MD will post something and never engage with it. According-Activity will post something then post a GIF response almost instantly. It’s so tuned and they’re never called out about it.

    GIF responses are indeed a frequent thing for reddit bots to use, from what I’ve seen.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
      356·
      3 days ago

      The increase of tankies acting like russia doesn’t sow division via bot/troll farms in the west is really annoying.

      • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
        46·
        2 days ago

        Turns out that just because you repeat it endlessly it doesn’t become true. It’s literally warmed over Judeo-Bolshivik conspiracy

      • ɯᴉuoʇuɐ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        819·
        3 days ago

        For now what I’m usually seeing is people talking about Russian influence without hard proof or just plainly contradicted by reality, as in this case. I’ve seen speculation that Dessalines (Lemmy developer) is Russian due to his tankie takes, again easily contradicted by his digital footprint.

        As for me being a tankie, I’m literally banned on Hexbear for being subscribed to some anti-tankie communities.

        • BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          46·
          2 days ago

          If you don’t believe that the Judeo-Bolshiviks are polluting our precious bodily fluids then you’re a tankie