I also noticed the shillbots out in force on twitter and reddit, it seems as if china is having their information warfare division work overtime to inflame divisions in america
However, the shills here I believe are coming from CTR/ShareBlue but I'm sure one or two of them are also legitimate leftists who just want to troll.
It's Salami tactics with agent provocateurs and fellow travelers. See who has big comment numbers but few post wins. That ratio should be an indicator of possible skulduggery.