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amwyesterday at 7:27 AM0 repliesview on HN

This speculative nonsense adds nothing:

> We know that state actors have invested heavily in understanding and exploiting these divisions. Russian active measures campaigns have been documented doing exactly this kind of work: identifying wedge issues and creating content designed to inflame both sides. North Korea has demonstrated similar sophistication in their social engineering operations by targeting academics and foreign policy experts

What about "read Twitter in between bouts of using one susceptible user's API key to spam other users for their API keys" _really_ requires the sophistication of a state-level actor? Statements like this aren't journalism, they're exactly the same kind of manipulation being used by the phishers.