I wonder if we can plot news posts on lemmy . ml to see if there is a correlation here. There is a natural ebb and flow to pro-Russian posts and also pro-China posts that I have noticed over there already. I am speculating that some of the media over there comes directly from paid farms, but I can’t prove it.
The only issue is that I would probably need to track other places like twotter and gab to get the full picture of the propaganda flows. I’ve done it before, and it’s really weird stuff once you dig in a little.
It would be interesting, but not very useful for anything. Honestly, the only thing I really learned last time was how state sponsored news propagates.