The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
RIP search engine that still gives good piracy results.
You’ll be missed.
That’s true. Google is so censored you can’t find anything. And on the other hand, dark web search engines let you find things you’d rather not know about
Right before the midterms in America.
This is gonna be bad for MAGA
Is anyone really on the fence anymore?
Oh god, so many are on the fence still in Idiot America.
The poll gave numerous signs that Trump’s low popularity was weighing heavily on his Republican Party, with registered voters preferring Democrats over Republicans by 44% to 37% less than a month before the November 3 election. Among independents, Democrats led 37% to 21%, with 28% of independent registered voters still undecided.
JFC in a handbasket what the ?!? I guess some people don’t really give a shit what happens and just vote so they can say they participated.
Vermin Supreme where are you!
American conservatives would elect to get cancer if it had an ® next to its name. That is, so long as they can fuel up the massive trucks they use to stand in for their tiny cocks, but Trump fucked up diesel pricing.
I’m guessing 15% are starting to wonder.
By “Yandex bot” and “Russian bot” what do they mean?
Do we mean “bot”, like a social media account that pretends to be an authentic human user, but is actually a “bot”, or some other version of something inauthentic? Or do we mean the crawlers that Yandex sends out to crawl websites to refresh its search index?
Search engine crawlers.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
Bot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic…
Ok, so that’s a pretty inoffensive form of bot. It’s not the bots pretending to be real people, which is what I think of when I hear “Russian Bot”.
It’s presumably also better behaved than the crawlers used by the AI companies. Those just refresh indices, but they’re way more aggressive than the ones typically used by search companies, and often don’t respect the robots.txt file.
Of course the reason of using the term ‘bot’ rather than crawler or just automated traffic is a specific framing.
This is a one two punch, not only does it hurt Russia’s interests, it may cost the GOP in the upcoming election. Nice way to respond to Trump buying Russian Diesel.
This is in ukraine’s best iterest.Russian (and Chinese among others) bots drive political unrest, primarily by supporting right wing and nationalist provocateurs to destabilize governments that support Ukraine or NATO.If Zelensky can silence the trolls, he has a better chance at continued support.Disregard. It’s Yandex bots, not troll farm bots.
Ah, but the troll farms use Yandex
They don’t use Yandex, but it appears they might share datacenter resources.
I don’t know anything about the linked source or how trustworthy it is.
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I wonder of we’ll be able to see the effects on pubic opinion. E.g. if political polling will show a noticeable change upon yandex being shut down
If only you read the article you’d realize the “bot network” they’re talking about is indexing websites so the Yandex search engine and related services can find them. The article literally gloats how “this will make the Internet slow or unusable for Russians”.
But of course they knew what they were doing with the headline. Targeting Euro-Americans who think the reason their politicians are corrupt is secret Russian (or Chinese) influence and dissenting opinions on the internet are Russian bots.
Or I might just be one of the 10% of the bots that are still coming through!
So do you think that there will be an effect on public opinion? Not necessarily limited to the west. I would expect that severely limited access to internet in Russia might affect public opinion there too
Losing unfettered access to the western internet? That can only be beneficial.
I’m not sure what you mean. Who is losing access to the western internet? Why are they benefiting from it?
I’m unaware of civilization’s general impression of that population’s bikini area hygiene, TBF. 🫡
Oh jeez it took me a while to realise my typo haha
In Russia or abroad?
Either/or. I am wondering about the effects on public opinion generally
effects on pubic opinion
Unfortunately Russian Z-patriots are much much more hypnotized even than US MAGAs.
They need intensive deprogramming and reintroduction into civil society. Temporarily cutting off just one source of propaganda helps a little, but does not put the cancer into remission.
If religion’s history as a whole is considered, they’re more than likely to simply glom onto the next big lie that puts them in the in-crowd. 🧏🏼♂️
They’ll 100% move them somewhere else as quickly as they can.
I think we all understand the landscape isn’t that simple anymore. Data centers aren’t cheap and easy to spin up.
And yet i am still here
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