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It would be very helpful if you provide some links to your claims.

There are many platform reports on state-sponsored influence, and they routinely do not name Germany and France.

Instead, the overall picture of perpetrators is that of authoritarian regimes.



Platform reports by whom?


By platforms.

Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms regularly publish (and in some countries are required by law to publish) reports on coordinated inauthentic behavior.

Example: https://about.fb.com/news/2021/07/june-2021-coordinated-inau...


Here's the GCHQ unit that somehow never shows up in the coordinated inauthentic behavior reports. We know some of the specifics because of the Snowden leaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig...

> Campaigns operated by JTRIG have broadly fallen into two categories; cyber attacks and propaganda efforts. The propaganda efforts (named "Online Covert Action"[3] utilize "mass messaging" and the "pushing [of] stories" via the medium of Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube.[2] Online "false flag" operations are also used by JTRIG against targets.[2]

I's pretty clear to me that every country does this, and it's only the countries without any political sway over Facebook, et al that end up in the 'inauthentic behavior' reports.


I don't understand why you'd expect anything from Facebook to be a reliable source? Or from any platform about their own integrity? Their historical record on truthful reporting is dismal, and they have every incentive to report what the moral fashion of the day is about.




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