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Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025
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Sorry, but this is wrong. They're also actively sponsoring "left wing" propaganda, to further sow discord. Depending on which group you yourself belong to, it's just easier to spot "the others".
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39592010
Your article doesn't seem to mention Russia once.
Rumors and smears are part of free speech. To the extent that right-wing trolls and their audience are actual voters, it's essentially just a coarse form of ordinary political speech.
The extent to which a foreign government acting coverly is either creating or artificially boosting such content is scandalous.
Feel free to read any other article that does, if you somehow have managed to avoid learning about russian influence campaigns over the last decade.
Maybe someone wants you to think that Russian influence campaigns are a problem and so they feed you articles.