Pamela_Butler does in fact seem to be from some sort of Putinist group, having spent several hours tracking down a bunch of Ukranian news posts to post the same image with similar one-sentence messages.
I'd left it limited, to see if it would do anything else, but I went ahead and suspended the account now, so the pile of messages wasn't littering the feed. If anyone wants to see them to look further into this, I can pull them up by switching it from a Suspend to a Freeze.
Email address is a name and number @mail.ru, which is a common Email site for our legit Russian users, so that's not much to go on.
IP range is in Finland, and might just be a common IP range for legit Russian / Nordic users, but looking it up it may be associated with Finnish Nationalists.
Sign up was July 2, and that might be relevant.
Anyone else seeing this pattern on their end?
#FediMod #FediStaff #Moderation #Fediblock
Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon: /
npub1t5…9kgs5
2024-07-08 18:59:05
in reply to nevent1q…6fty
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2024-07-08 18:59:05Event JSON
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