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I dunno if anybody has done a write up of it but there’s a pretty big Russian disinformation operation that runs on the Fediverse
If you search on Mastodon for t.me/RussianBaZa you’ll find some of it. I’ve been playing a whackamole with them on my server to keep them off.
They have a ton of unique email domains they use for sign ups and proxy IPs for registration, then register a custom app in Mastodon to automate posting a few weeks after sign up.
Here’s an example of the kind of posts, they tend to piggy back off hashtags. It’s definitely automated posting and at volume. In this case xfaadf is the app they registered, but it appears to be random.
@GossiTheDog this makes me wonder what the ratio is on legit vs. bot posts that contain the substring "t.me"
my guess is it's a pretty heavy skew.
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