D.C. Weekly, the New York News Daily, the Chicago Chronicle and a newer sister publication, the Miami Chronicle.
In fact, they are not local news organizations at all. They are Russian creations, researchers and government officials say, meant to mimic actual news organizations to push Kremlin propaganda by interspersing it among an at-times odd mix of stories about crime, politics and culture.
These will be on Lemmy in no time.
It’s sad that I can already anticipate which handful of accounts they’re likely to come from (excluding brand new accounts that pop up en mass, though the automod gets a lot of those)
https://lemm.ee/u/yogthos@lemmygrad.ml
This one for sure. They love to post RT and Presstv.ir links on the regular as well as downright word-salad domains that I’ve never seen before.
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Yeah, no surprise. Bummer for the legit users who signed up there.
Yeah sadly I have seen a few already