I remember there was a time on the internet where "Don't feed the trolls" and "True story, read it on the internet" was a thing. Would be nice if they were a thing again. Even in this thread, obvious trolls are being engaged and motivated to spew their filth.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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This is how smaller communities die. They get infested with state actors and the paradigm shifts on some of the stupidest, dipshit topics.
Big ones too. Case in point, USA.
You are literally reading EU state propaganda in this very post, an article by "kyivinsider" sourcing its information from "alliance4europe", funded by the European Parliament and the Polish International Affairs ministry among others (according to its own website, feel free to check the link inside the article).
That doesn't mean that it's fake news or anything, the report is most likely true, just that it's really ironic that we're consuming state propaganda designed to make us worried about state propaganda from other "evil" countries (unlike our glorious EU parliament, not on a fascist downward spiral at all)
I thought I was smelling some more of that over there lately.
Gross
It's an information war like Hilary Clinton said.
The link goes to a site created less than two months ago kyivinsider. The source is from Alliance4europe.This is part of the DISARM Foundation, also know for AMITT (Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques) framework.
That one belongs to the Credibility Coalition, and that one to Meedan. A San Francisco based organization funded by the US National Science Foundation and many organizations like Meta, Amazon, etc.
The Russians are amateurs at propaganda in comparison to the US.
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Can they not just block these? I get that this is a never ending battle against troll farms and the like, but is BSky already falling to the "more engagement is better and we don't care if it's nefarious engagement" trap already?
There are many useful blocklists. But the average user isn’t informed enough to seek them.
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The fucking Russian shills cried on Reddit resulting in permanent bans. They will be here soon enough.