During the Brexit era, the author noticed many comments were made by Russian trolls. The trolls employed odd English and regurgitated pro-Putin views to skew discussions. In response, the author began to insert confusing and provocative sentences into their writing, which led to the trolls eventually abandoning their posts. However, this vacated space was quickly filled with right-wing commenters, indicating the ongoing political friction. Despite previously intense criticism from conservative factions, the noise surrounding these columns diminished following the election, suggesting a shift in focus or strategy from political critics.
Between 2020 and the fall of the last government, these columns were the subject of complaints and criticisms on the right, highlighting the ongoing political tensions surrounding Brexit.
I began to bait the bots by inserting deliberately incomprehensible, but also somehow provocative, sentences into my pieces, culminating in the following paragraph, after which point the Russian provocateurs left me alone.
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