To put into perspective how scary that is, we have to remember that the Japanese government had hired (paid with our taxes) a troll farm to influence Twitter us

To put into perspective how scary that is, we have to remember that the Japanese government had hired (paid with our taxes) a troll farm to influence Twitter users before the 2021 elections. When the scandal was unveiled the Twitter account name went famous: "Dappi" (actually it was only one of the many accounts of this propaganda). In particular, it was depicting leftist politicians as corrupted, weak, encouraging insults towards them, etc. So, it may seem to you "just fair" that the Japanese government develops such techniques as a response to China and Russia doing the same, but here there is the knowledge that the Japanese government, under LDP rule (center-right to far-right), already have used these kind of weapons against its own population in the recent past.