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Trolls and Elves in Hamrun

We always say that we are not particular to conspiracy theories and that we’d rather concentrate on substance than waste time with the mud slinging war. Having said that a few comments coming in to J’accuse recently got our attention. It’s not just the fact that the comment writer disagreed with what we said (may the lord send many of these dissenters to our pages) but how he said it. The comments feel forced and scripted, almost as if the author(s) was busy repeating the same stuff here, there and everywhere in – how shall I say it? – a propagandistic fashion.

Was there really a hall of elves busy assaulting comment boards? Has J’accuse been definitely pigeonholed into the “nationalist sympathiser” category as seems to be the trend and effort to date? Well seems so. We did a quick check on the IP address and low and behold the commentator was situated bang in the middle of Hamrun. Now it’s either someone using the free wi-fi at Borg Bonaci in High Street or…

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