HotNews[.]ro, one of the largest and most popular news site in Romania, has been flooded with pro-Russian troll comments for the past two years.
Those comments were usually downvoted and auto-collapsed by other user's votes, who obviously knew what was happening.
The site recently redesigned its comments system to remove the ability to downvote comments and the entire user comments section is just Putin praisers and stupid unrelated anti-EU and "woke liberals" type of comments now
Catalin Cimpanu /
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2024-08-06 11:25:02
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