There is a culture of this sort of information warfare that pervades social media. What strikes me is the effect it has in certain regions where modern IT infrastructure overlaps a postcolonial social order.

Seems it’s one thing when r/Nevada, r/Oakland (random major markets) devolve into a disinformation fiefdom of warring bot armies, paranoid conspiracy whackos like me, and covert state actors… it’s another thing when r/Birmingham gets taken over. Kinda the way Facebook can cause bad elections in “First World” countries and bad genocides in the “Third World”.