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I’m getting tired of seeing posts like “haha no more Russian bots now” on Reddit.
and a good chunk of those are langley bots
Saw a similar post on Facebook. Guy used a analytic tool from bluesky sorting for a single hashtag that only amounted to 1000 posts over a 4 day period. The number of Pro russian posts were 1/2 as common 3 and 4 days after the strike as they were 1 and 2 days after the strike and somehow that proves the pro Russian posts were Russian trolls? Like if they were Russian trolls wouldn’t the drop in posts happen the day of the attack?
Same, especially since the west uses bots to the same extent
To the same extent? No, nowhere near. The Russians are amateurs compared to the West when it comes to botting.
What’s the reason? (I haven’t visited that cesspool since I came here.)
Data center in Russia got hit by a Ukrainian drone. Some Polish journalist/official/whatever with a lot of twitter followers then posted a sourceless graph claiming the number of Right wing posts/posters went down across the board on every social media site.
This of course didn’t happen and bro never cited his sources and no one can find the OG source (because he made it all up) but liberals are gullible and it fits their cognitive bias so they’re all spreading this nonsense that it was a “Russian bot farm” that got hit despite overwhelming lack of evidence beyond “well it FEELS true!!!”
A yandex data center got hit by ukraine.