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That plus that social media companies have gotten a bit more hip to this but have a much easier time banning stuff located in Russia. Much easier to filter by 'source country' than by content... Russian operatives can blend in very easily in Ukraine and Latvia because there is a large chunk of the population that speaks Russian natively. Doing that in say NL or France would be far harder without attracting some kind of scrutiny. And possibly they have other duties besides.


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