are russian and chinese “plants” overwhelming the political forum?

[Anonymous]

someone keeps posting that russian and chinese plants are running and ruining the political discussion forum?

Is that a problem to be aware of?

Can you not stop bad foreign actors from spreading misinformation and lies here?

[jsteele]

This debate has been going on for years. I detect trolls and sock puppets all the time. But I've never seen any evidence that foreign trolls or bots are an issue. Despite that, one or more posters is completely convinced that every third post or so is from a Russian troll or Chinese bot or whatever. Frankly, I'm at the end of my patience with that poster and if others would report the posts, I would remove them.

Just like "troll-calling", the constant "bot-calling" is more of a problem than actual trolls and bots.

[Anonymous]

Thanks.