So, first off, I'm not in the U.S. - this is very much an outsider's perspective on the current mess.

But I've been taking a look at the federated feed on here, and one thing seems clear - someone is controlling the discourse here.

There are any number of posts suggesting - or outright claiming - that fake democratic ballots will be shipped in in order to force a democratic victory. At first, I thought that these were merely bitter Trump supporters... but then there was a series of posts claiming that a number of _republican_ ballots had been found somewhere, where (apparently) someone had put them and the forgotten about them. And every one of the toots I saw on _that_ story were phrasing it as how "those evil democrats were trying to hide real republican votes".

That wasn't the last of it, but just thinking about the way those two sides were presented - both stories about ballots that were put aside and recovered from opposite sides, both framed in such a way as to suggest the same side was evil, both repeated dozens of times and I never once saw any one making the opposite claim - that tells me that someone is _pushing an agenda_.

Whoever it is, they're trying to make it _seem_ as if it's a grassroots movement, people complaining because they feel strongly about something.

This feels (to me) as if it's a Bell-Pottinger-type social media campaign; where they have a bunch of people write suitably grassrootish tweets and toots, and some software platform that just spams these messages _everywhere_; probably using a couple of hundred fake accounts.