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I’d say they are expressing honest opinions that happen to be useful to Russian state interests

the people producing the content that I’ve seen talk about it so far have said there was no editorial line at all, and they individually all had full control of what they produced. the company’s only creative contributions were when it made thumbnails and posted clips

there’s a bunch of people on Lemmy really mad that they can’t tell everyone not to vote for Biden anymore.

is there any evidence for this claim at all?

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i didn’t defend anyone or the general act of shilling.

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i am going to push back on that a bit and say that your presumption about other users is unfounded and toxic to the community.

Also, what makes you so sure that these are private accounts?

i assume that other users are actual users. there is no reason for you to assume they are not.

Is your argument that it’s okay to spread hate and slander

no

they dont interact with anyone except to spread hateful messages, and the messages are copy pastes of other bots.

i have never seen this.

this is a platform for people to discuss topics that interest them. i have every reason to believe it’s populated by people discussing topics that interest them.

I don’t think private individuals without a political agenda

i don’t believe there are private individuals without a political agenda

I can only conclude from such behavior that it is not about exchanging ideas with others, but about promoting a clearly defined world view,

some people want to spread their ideas. that doesn’t make them not-people or even require that tehy are paid.

they only post on thing topic with some random sprinckled in

so? they might care a lot about one or two topics.

what makes you think they aren’t sincerely held beliefs being posted by real people?

yea. how dare you. try engaging on topic and with intellectual honesty.

it is manipulative. it is designed to distract from the subject at hand and imply that the person being asked is acting in bad faith if they don’t chase your red herring.

how about you don’t engage in bad faith red herrings? instead, you could address the points other people raise in their comments.

this is some smug, manipulative bullshit.

america makes banana republics. america is an empire