If I remember correctly the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence quietly released a bipartisan report some years back conforming the existence of Russian trolls in the 2016 election. I haven’t seen any evidence or reports released that they have ceased their attempts at manipulating social media since then.

I do agree though, a lot of the posts are just real people who know that hate gets more engagement and crazy people.

Hey now, a lot of us boomers are already on Lemmy.

As a tail end boomer, I spent the 60s watching sesame street, Hanna Barbara cartoons and attending kindergarten classes.

Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January

Of course they did