Russian mass influence campaigns are well documented globally and have been for more than a decade.

It is also right in their military strategy text that you can read yourself.

Even beyond that, why would an adversarial nation state to the US not do this? It is extremely asymmetrical, effective and cheap.

The parent comment shows how easy it is to manipulate smart people away from their common sense into believing obvious nonsense if you use your brain for 2 seconds.

Of course, of course.. still, strangely I see online other kinds of "armies" much more often.. and the scale, in this case, is indeed of armies..