I’ll just leave the question at that, because I can’t even speculate.

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    14 hours ago

    driving traffic to monetized websites (news, porn, ad-loaded blogs) would be my first guess. Propaganda secondarily, which could also intersect with news and blog referrals.

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      12 hours ago

      This is what I was wondering, is there some monetization scheme they’re taking advantage of?

      The ones I’m thinking of don’t seem to be advertising products or sites, specifically, though. But, I thought there might be something more subtle going on.