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I’d say they are expressing honest opinions that happen to be useful to Russian state interests

the people producing the content that I’ve seen talk about it so far have said there was no editorial line at all, and they individually all had full control of what they produced. the company’s only creative contributions were when it made thumbnails and posted clips

there’s a bunch of people on Lemmy really mad that they can’t tell everyone not to vote for Biden anymore.

is there any evidence for this claim at all?

i didn’t defend anyone or the general act of shilling.

they dont interact with anyone except to spread hateful messages, and the messages are copy pastes of other bots.

i have never seen this.

this is a platform for people to discuss topics that interest them. i have every reason to believe it’s populated by people discussing topics that interest them.

I can only conclude from such behavior that it is not about exchanging ideas with others, but about promoting a clearly defined world view,

some people want to spread their ideas. that doesn’t make them not-people or even require that tehy are paid.

what makes you think they aren’t sincerely held beliefs being posted by real people?