While lemmy itself isn’t a target for propaganda bots

Why do you assume this? It’s impossible to tell most of the time, but every so often one of them fucks up and reveals that something hinky is going on.

The most recent example was someone who was furious about Graham Platner and said we shouldn’t support him, fellow leftists, while also claiming to have been in the US military and also to be from Platner’s tiny home county, using both of those as sources of authority to speak on it, and I can say that at least the military side of that was definitely a lie because the person didn’t know how the US military works.

What is the explanation for that, other than that the person is deliberately doing propaganda against progressive candidates?