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by nitwit005 2473 days ago
Russia and China have, in effect, trained people to assume posts defending them are paid or bots. Many of us have seen the sudden swarm of patterned posts, sometimes with bad English, show up in comments. And we've seen news articles like this one.

Maybe it works, on average, but it tends to undermine real people's posts. Why listen to someone who is likely to be a bot?