Ivan from St. Petersburg calls himself "Heinz Müller" and creates a Telegram group that reports about immigrant crime in my neighborhood, trying to fool elderly citizens with lack of social media experience into believing his fake news stories. It's a proven approach and Ivan's main job. If Ivan would've been born in another country, he simply would've tried to scam elderly citizens, but because he was born in russia he works for the propaganda unit so he doesn't get sent to a meat assault on the frontlines.

In his free time Ivan comes to HN and poses as a free speech absolutist.

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j-krieger a day ago | parent | next [-]

> In his free time Ivan comes to HN and poses as a free speech absolutist.

I am not an absolutist, far from it, and I'm pretty sad that you feel the need to resort to personal attacks, even if indirect.

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nec4b a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Is there also a progressive woke version of Ivan or is there always only a far right version of him?

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j-krieger a day ago | parent | next [-]

Well you see, <my side>'s swarm intelligence is organic and honest and people from <other side> are bots.

Jokes aside, the Harris campaign openly manipulated Reddit to get their opinions on the top [1]. I was there on election night. The entire site slowed to a crawl. Opinions of people you normally never read gained hundreds to thousands of upvotes. It felt organic for exactly one day.

[1]: https://thefederalist.com/2024/10/29/busted-the-inside-story...

	▲	nec4b a day ago \| parent [-]
		If the plan is to sow division, it would be really weird to always only try to play one side. If I was trying to stir division, I would make sure to play all sides for maximum effect. But apparently other commentators here think only one side is being played and its always the same one.

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