He generally shows most of the signs of the misinformation accounts:

  • Wants to repeatedly tell basically the same narrative and nothing else
  • Narrative is fundamentally false
  • Not interested in any kind of conversation or in learning that what he’s posting is backwards from the values he claims to profess

I also suspect that it’s not a coincidence that this is happening just as the Elon Musks of the world are ramping up attacks on Wikipedia, specially because it is a force for truth in the world that’s less corruptible than a lot of the others, and tends to fight back legally if someone tries to interfere with the free speech or safety of its editors.

Anyway, YSK. I reported him as misinformation, but who knows if that will lead to any result.

Edit: Number of people real salty that I’m talking about this: Lots

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    1 day ago

    Who hates Wikipedia:

    Russia

    Is this even true? Has any Russian state official or organization indicated they give two shits about an English-centric US-hosted online encyclopedia? Ditto Israel.

    Feels like every time I read a “bad actors on the internet” story, I get someone in the comments insisting a foreign intelligence officer is secretly pulling all the strings. As though American propagandists and industrial scale media magnets aren’t willing or capable of doing the job themselves.

    • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      24 hours ago

      State actors often pose as normal editors on wikipedia, in order to try and cover for things they do. Corporations often do the same thing, via their PR firms.

      Its pretty well documented on the WP logs.

        • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          22 hours ago

          It is possible, but very rarely done. Because 99% of a PR or state actor intel group’s job is lying to the public. Because if all you needed was the truth, they wouldn’t have a job.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        23 hours ago

        A bunch of these state actors are western politicians and their staff/campaigns, though.

        The Evil Slavic Menace isn’t out there scrubbing pages for a bunch of state legislators, MPs, and judicial appointees. That’s just the goons of the local political parties.

        • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
          5·
          22 hours ago

          It’s not even remotely isolated to “Western politicians”… I spent 4 months battling on a few articles, and it turns out, I wasted many hours with a troll farm ran by the CCP…

          I’ve also wasted many hours on reps from the Church of Scientology, NY State Police, SCO Group, the GOP of Arkansas, and the Dem Committee in Nevada.

          Any state or corporation you can think of has been trying to attack WP like this.

    • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
      33·
      1 day ago

      No its true actually. Vladimir (the impaler) Putin and President Xi got together and had a secret meeting all about how Wikipedia is the greatest threat to their total dictatorship of Earth, because its the only thing keeping the American citizens so free and open minded and a place where people can go to learn about forbidden topics like Tank Girl and Winnie the Pooh. Putin got mad because he read the article about Grizzly bears and it said he’d probably die if he tried to wrestle one, so he spun up his special government botnet from his elite hacker force and activated his army of Tankie sleeper agents on Lemmy to make an attack on the Freedom of Information Act (thats a special law that Biden made to try to protect wikipedia and keep free speech safe).

      this is a joke about foreign influence on Lemmy, not about Wikipedia itself. I like wikipedia