Absolutely, I'm also wondering if maybe more sophisticated things are happening behind the scenes and if the more security-experienced members had some thoughts.
This could also be an interesting thread to pool some of the observations of the Russian trolls here
Or are you the Russian troll?!
Yeah a relatively new account asking how much is know about Russia sock puppeting? Sus
And Chinese ones too. I think it’s fair to assume all sides have supporters. It seems odd to me that people would think there are not russian supporters here. We do not live in a totalitarian society where 100% of people are anti-Russia.
It probably springs off the faulty assumption that HN is only people who live in Silicon Valley and work in well-remunerated tech jobs and hot startups.