Previous U.S. intelligence assessments dating to 2016 concluded that Russia sought to weaken support for the Democratic Party and boost Donald Trump’s candidacy.
I suspect that we’re seeing a lot of this on Lemmy already. I’ve started paying attention to usernames of those who post content, and have found that it’s just a couple people posting the vast majority of hyper-critical anti-Biden content. These posts tend to get hundreds of upvotes without many comments. I remember seeing similar behavior on Reddit in the previous election cycle, and on 4chan in the election before that.
I made !pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net to test a new moderation approach which is designed to filter out a lot of the crap. I think you should try posting some articles there, and see whether you see the same hyper-critical anti-Biden content. I think I know what you’re talking about, and I think the filtering bot will probably be able to detect and ban almost all of the users you’re talking about.
I suspect that we’re seeing a lot of this on Lemmy already. I’ve started paying attention to usernames of those who post content, and have found that it’s just a couple people posting the vast majority of hyper-critical anti-Biden content. These posts tend to get hundreds of upvotes without many comments. I remember seeing similar behavior on Reddit in the previous election cycle, and on 4chan in the election before that.
I made !pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net to test a new moderation approach which is designed to filter out a lot of the crap. I think you should try posting some articles there, and see whether you see the same hyper-critical anti-Biden content. I think I know what you’re talking about, and I think the filtering bot will probably be able to detect and ban almost all of the users you’re talking about.