The need for validation made me break open the vault, lol. You asked for it:

Edit (I found some more, but they’re more propaganda focused):

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    5 hours ago

    This needs to be brought to the front of the internet. Good work!!

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      5 hours ago

      Thanks. I thought everyone knew this stuff, but then I realized that was up to 10 years ago that this all came out.

      Edit: This quote describes the way they operate here on Lemmy. It’s a smaller community. So if it feels like people are unnecessarily angry, this is why. You’re either an influencer or being influenced.

      “Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”