This piece of misinformation has become the most upvoted post on the frontpage of the biggest Lemmy instance, this is my problem
“Everyone who doesn’t agree with me must be paid by Putin” is one great way to absolve yourself of any accountability
So everything is evidence that it’s Russia, both when the accounts are inside and outside Russia. Every claim is non-falsifiable and everything can be attributed to the evil Easterners.
Qué pena me da la comida de cabeza que os han hecho con la mierda de que Rusia está detrás de todo… Pero bueno, supongo que es más fácil echarle la culpa del fascismo en la UE y en EEUU a “los malvados judeobolchebiques… digo rusos” que asumir que nuestros gobiernos están llenos de fascistas.
Good job, OP. You’ve successfully disinformed 1.5k Lemmitors who upvoted this. Hope you’re happy contributing to Lemmy becoming a conspiracy-brained ingroup.
Huh, none of those accounts listed were in Russia, and some were in Germany and in “Eastern European country not in the EU”
Buddy, I’m a communist. I hate the Putin regime. You haven’t talked about this in .world at all, but last week 3 communists in Russia were trialed and condemned to 12 years in jail for reading Lenin, but those are commies so you and our mass media don’t give a fuck. I have personal loved ones suffering the results of the government and the sanctions. So don’t fucking tell me I’m a Russian simp.
The thing is, unlike you, I don’t blame every cancer of the cancerous west on a foreign nation. If there had been this platform 20 years ago and you and I had been in it, you’d be calling me a Hussein simp for complaining that there’s no evidence of weapons of mass destruction. If it were 35 years ago, you’d be calling me a Kuwait simp for requesting caution when listening to Nayirah’s testimony. And now it is 2025 and you call me a Russian simp because I’m a European citizen more concerned with our own fascist politicians who wants good diplomatic and economic relations with Russia and who believes that most of the problems between Europe and Russia come from the US (successful) attempts to antagonize the country, because believe it or not, history did not begin in February 2022.
Aaand here we go with the racist dehumanizing language. Bye bye with you, racist fuck
Russia is simultaneously a shitty gas station about to collapse and just a few sanctions away, and an all-powerful entity dominating US and EU politics. Everyone who contradicts this is paid for by the state.
Oh no, I contradicted your baseless conspiracy theory, I definitely must be paid for by all-powerful and simultaneously about to collapse Ruzzia!
Literal maga behaviour, I expected better from people who fled reddit
Are you seriously defending the contents of this post?
You seriously don’t think there’s anything wrong with 700 people upvoting this dogshit conspiracy theory misinformation? Are you gonna pretend it’s alrighty and dandy because “it’s le evil Ruzzians at work again”?
My agenda is socialism, as you can see directly on my username. I’m not hiding anything. Blaming the far right autoctonous to Europe and the USA on foreigners is not realistic analysis, and so won’t reach realistic results. “Let’s close Russian disinformation” good, let’s also close western disinformation, which is vastly more prevalent and, you know, LEGAL.
When people make disinformation campaigns, whether it was their intention or not, I will respond accordingly
You can be honest and say you have an agenda posting this because of your political opinions, but it is disinformation. Without any link to Russia other than a localized blackout in a minor city in the Moscow region (not part of Moscow, as your post implies, but Moscow Oblast), you could equally make the guess that the posters/bots were on holidays because of Halloween/Día de Muertos and didn’t make posts because of expected low engagement.
The fact that you’re trying to push a link between the two a-priori unrelated events, even if you frame it under “I’m just asking questions”, has a deliberate attempt, and my worry is not exclusively with you as a single individual doing this, but the 500 conspiracy-brained upvotes taking this shit and nothingburger to the frontpage.
The title is misleading at best. I’m sure 30-50% of the content are bots, but the link to Moscow is… let’s say tenuous. There is no good source for a blackout in Moscow, only in a minor city (100k inhabitants) of the Moscow area called Zhukovsky according to one of the comments in the post. Russia is a country with 150 million inhabitants, searching for blackouts anywhere in the country on one event of reduced bot activity isn’t real science, and doesn’t point to any kind of causation.
Further down in the post, if you read it, you can even see OP was using problematic methodology and had to point to another post. You’re literally just going by the words of a random reddit user at this point. This is conspiracy theory level shit, guys, you can do better than this.
Edit: link to the corrected reddit post by the same user. Look at the fifth graph provided. Amazing that 350 people upvoted this conspiracy shit, you guys have a serious problem over at .world
Edit 2: @BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip do you have anything to reply at all to this? Don’t you think your post is disinformation, or at least the title?
ESP32 proceeds to explode with 230VAC