• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    I suspected that many of the accounts were Russian plants or Trump supporters trying to divide the Democrat vote. Most of the time when I checked account age they were made either that day or the day before.

    I know that Lemmy is new and all but still was sus.

    I haven’t gone back to accounts to see if they are still active. I suspect that they aren’t.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 hours ago

      I suspect that what we saw here on lemmy were actual people who had been indoctrinated elsewhere.

      Lemmy isn’t really big enough to be a target for bots and so on.

      • Croquette@sh.itjust.works
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        3 hours ago

        Bots are cheap to write. That’s naive to think there wasn’t a disinformation war going on with bots being on the forefront of it.