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> It wasn't the news I saw. It was a bunch of random FB groups and comment's sections

Yeah, I got that. I'm saying that seeing what they're going to push is the only reason to watch the news.

> Fwiw, I see a lot of the same troll farm style discourse on fedi too, but arguably a lot of this stuff only needs to be initially seeded by paid orgs,

Yeah, definitely. Some people just dismiss me if I call someone a bot or a German fed or something, but the EU is all over fedi and the German BMBF and BNF have taken it upon themselves to combat "right-wing extremists", they admitted to running troll farms and spying on foreign journalists, and finally, there's this paper where they're trying to figure out how to map fedi and lamenting that it's difficult to use NetzDG to take down PeerTube instances.
the_hydra_on_the_web--challenges_associated_with_extremist_use_of_the_fediverse.pdf