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Yeah. The vibes I get are a sort of attempt to slowly shift the overton window kind of thing. Thanks for your work here. Seems to confirm my suspicion there.
Lemmy is really kind of shaping up in a way that… I might reach out to a local higher education institution and try and get some real research done. I feel like it’s more plain as day here than it is on Reddit? It’s like super easy to see.
There are definitely more of them on Reddit, but I think new accounts there stand out more as an attempt to obfuscate prior intent since reddit has been around forever and lemmy still gets a lot of highly involved new users or people switching instances without intent to deceive. I’d be curious if an actual analysis shows a trend of soft introductions to soft on Russia sources using articles that don’t mention Russia or Ukraine at all. Still, even if shown to be the primary technique, it’s a hard sell to moderate based on articles that weren’t linked, and certainly larger media corporations have a few crappy false articles a month as well, not even to mention opinion pieces.
Yeah the hard thing is it appears really intently crafted on ‘fitting in’ while still dragging in a sense of doom. I certainly can’t imagine how one would moderate.
I just tag people when I see it. I call it out when tagged accounts repeat offense. And after that I start ringing bells for others to take note, tag the user themselves, and maybe we can come to a consensus together.
Looks like they got banned, so it looks like it works. It’s slow, but it works. :)