Not “lately”. It’s been the case for about 60+ years, with a lull in the 1992-1997 period, roughly, due to reorganization within the army, secret services, and counter intelligence.
Those (Mizzou) would be ‘training’ operations. Due to the end of the cold war, many Americans have been lulled into a sense of safety and didn’t even register that when the Russian leadership said the greatest catastrophe in the 20th century was the fall of the Soviet Union, ie, the fact Russia relinquished world leadership to the US is something to be offset by any means.
The facts bots were part of the Mizzou mess isn’t surprising as it’s similar to other situations that we can he aware of, but interesting nevertheless.