If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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    Mfers still believe in Russiagate despite everything… It’s time to accept they’re not Russian trolls, your country is just full of fascists.

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      If I remember correctly the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence quietly released a bipartisan report some years back conforming the existence of Russian trolls in the 2016 election. I haven’t seen any evidence or reports released that they have ceased their attempts at manipulating social media since then.

      I do agree though, a lot of the posts are just real people who know that hate gets more engagement and crazy people.

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        They did, but they determined the huge russian disinformation campaign was the work of like 5 accounts and 200k in ad-spend on facebook. In other words a wet fart.

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      Why can’t it be both? Russian social media engineers wouldnt have to try that hard. America’s full of a bunch of fascist capitalist warmongers with a majority of liberal sheep for citizens, ready to believe whatever truth they want to be more true than reality.

      Perhaps Russia isn’t as involved as of late though? Perhaps Putin killed off all his social media engineers sending them to fight in Ukraine? I’m waiting for the reports to come in from field reporters finding Russian boy scout corpses on the battle field. That’s when you know he doesn’t have the resources to spend trying to influence American elections. He’s got bigger problems, like mandating Russian breeding schedules.