We had a couple of reports today of vote manipulation happening in the Australia community. After investigating, I'm seeing a trend:
https://aussie.zone/post/21203876 https://aussie.zone/post/21124048 https://aussie.zone/post/21194319 https://aussie.zone/post/21130833
The votes in all these posts look like this. In this example, only two of the downvotes look legitimate. The rest are coming from three instances that don't appear to be real Lemmy sites. One of them doesn't even resolve.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicity_Department_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party
Discussion about the aussie.zone instance itself
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publicity_Department_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party