Whether or not you consider it “disinfo,” doesn’t it smell rather like astroturf? Note that [email protected] 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 [email protected] May 2022 Dec. 2024 [email protected] Apr. 2023 Jun. 2024 [email protected] Apr. 2024 Jan. 2025 [email protected] Jun. 2024 Dec. 2024 [email protected] Jan. 2025 Apr. 2025 @[email protected] Jan. 2025 – @[email protected] Jan. 2025 – @[email protected] Aug. 2025 – @[email protected] Nov. 2025 –


I think I’ve seen some of those “hypothetical post-Balkanization” maps of China libs sometimes whip up that have kingdoms/states on them that haven’t existed for centuries and correspond to no modern political, cultural, or ethnic identity so, not far off.