• Hegar@fedia.io
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    20 hours ago

    Now instead of your aunt coming at you with misinfo she learned from her aunt, it’s your aunt coming at you with misinformation she learned from a russian bot farm.

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      14 hours ago

      Yes and to make it even worse, your aunt back in the day would tell 10 people some BS and maybe 3 would believe her. Not some Russian bot factory spits out BS to 10 million people and a lot more believe it.

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      17 hours ago

      I have the opposite problem. My mother doesn’t believe anything I tell her and thinks it is misinformation that I’ve been fed.

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      16 hours ago

      Did you spray for Russians under your bed before going to sleep? You really should, and check behind the sofa and in the dryer too. Russians can disguise themselves as Bounce dryer sheets, and the latest Russians can send themselves over Ethernet using the RoE protocol: Russian over Ethernet.

      Russia! Quite an imaginary world you live in! Aunts and Russians and bots and misinformation and all these people targeting you! How exciting!

      Can I send you my Moral Rearmament and John Birch Society fliers?

      https://imgur.com/a/john-birch-society-satire-1965-YkVs2mK

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        15 hours ago

        I’m oddly honored that I got a 3 paragraph troll with pictures in response to a comment that was barely even about russia.