• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    To be fair. I don’t think it’s impossible that some of these were so stupid to even realize that the ones paying them were Russian.

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      2 months ago

      They absolutely knew. There’s a note about them googling “time in Moscow” when their contact wasn’t replying, to see when they’d wake up and come back to work.

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        2 months ago

        I’m sure 99+% of them knew, but I’m not ruling out someone waking up to: “what? But the company that was paying me millions to convince people that Ukraine was the enemy was based in Illinois! There’s no way they they were Russian”. Every time I underestimate the stupidity of people they tend to surprise me, so I no longer do.