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There are definitely more of them on Reddit, but I think new accounts there stand out more as an attempt to obfuscate prior intent since reddit has been around forever and lemmy still gets a lot of highly involved new users or people switching instances without intent to deceive. I’d be curious if an actual analysis shows a trend of soft introductions to soft on Russia sources using articles that don’t mention Russia or Ukraine at all. Still, even if shown to be the primary technique, it’s a hard sell to moderate based on articles that weren’t linked, and certainly larger media corporations have a few crappy false articles a month as well, not even to mention opinion pieces.
Yeah the hard thing is it appears really intently crafted on ‘fitting in’ while still dragging in a sense of doom. I certainly can’t imagine how one would moderate.
I just tag people when I see it. I call it out when tagged accounts repeat offense. And after that I start ringing bells for others to take note, tag the user themselves, and maybe we can come to a consensus together.
Looks like they got banned, so it looks like it works. It’s slow, but it works. :)