Have you ever debated with a propaganda account? It's worth doing at least once if you haven't. It gives you a sense of how they work. I've seen no research to

Have you ever debated with a propaganda account? It's worth doing at least once if you haven't. It gives you a sense of how they work. I've seen no research to suggest that point-by-point reputations of propaganda accounts are effective. Usually it's better to just draw attention to what's happening and move on. The whole idea of this kind of propaganda is that bs is cheap to generate. You can a/b test it and go with what gains traction. Most people don't have the intellectual background on any given topic to form an informed opinion anyway. And you can shore up even the craziest ideas with "social proof" by deploying additional propaganda accounts to agree with the original. So I don't think "attack the argument" is effective for this sort of thing. I do think it's important in general when dealing with good faith participants who want to learn things and are willing to change their minds