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by _DeadFred_ 58 days ago
I'm not going to highlight the ones I pointed out to my representatives as I don't want them specifically removed at this point but the Iran Lego propaganda one was pretty full of examples when I was screenshotting it. You can also google

site:news.ycombinator.com russian bot versus site:news.ycombinator.com hasbara

you won't get much returns on russian bot even those it was often used in the rare Ukraine/Russian threads (or more often sub threads) because it has been moderated/pushed to stop being used by the community. Hasbara usage as a pejorative response is pretty casual and accepted usage here however, and a single comment just responding 'hasbara' to what someone said has often been left up for the period I monitored to see if it would be moderated (basically the useful life of the threads discussion when leaving it up would be of impact). The difference shows the YCombinator thumb on the discourse on their moderated message boards. Hasbara is also worse in the it is using language (specifically hebrew) to otherize a group, to highlight their 'hasbara' as worse/something more nefarious than when other groups do it, using a foreign word that would be better conveyed/understood with an english word (showing the intent isn't to communicate a thought in the best way but is to 'other' a linguistic group that also happens to be a racial group), giving usage a racial/ethnic manipulation/hate dynamic. Unlike Russian bot I have never seen hasbara usage called out or pushed against by the moderation here though it is mostly used in an way interchangeable with how russian bot was which was called out by mods.