Germany unearths pro-Russia disinformation campaign on X | More than 50,000 fake social media accounts found posting against Berlin’s support for Ukraine

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1. This isn’t surprising. Every post I make gets liked by a camgirl or crypto girl that doesn’t exist.

   I imagine the intent is to make the account look botted for popularity and have it flagged in some form or another.

2. Twitter is a cesspool. I’m not calling that bogus shit X either. Fuck Elon musk

3. It’s the same on every non-moderated or poorly moderated platforms.

   Every single youtube video from a popular or large channel that mentions Ukraine or russia for example, is swarmed by pro-russian trolls faking the nationality of the target audience within an hour. And every popular comment gets hit by subsequent follow-up disinfo. The same with news articles that allows comment sections. And it’s not only russians behind it either, it’s often outsourced to asian, middle-eastern and african countries.

   Luckily it’s drowned out by later organic posts, and there’s markedly less activity during weekends, but it really shows the absolutely massive scale of this, considering it’s very often human agents writing these posts. The non-human bots can usually be spotted by copy-paste messages and generic messaging, and that they don’t react to engagers.

4. Who would have thought 🌚

5. There are tons of account of real people too, who are prob paid or got brainwashed.

6. Europe should start seeing hybrid warfare as an act of war. Look what Russia has done to the US with hybrid warfare.

7. Trump and Elon thumb fucking their cellphone screens day and night laughing and trolling