lemmy.net.au
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours ago

Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots

gizmodo.com

external-link
message-square
93
fedilink
509
external-link

Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots

gizmodo.com

return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 hours ago
message-square
93
fedilink
Yandex's automated traffic fell by 94%, but that probably reflects widespread service outages rather than bot posting rates.
  • BurgerBaron@quokk.au
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    16
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    9 hours ago

    That’s the claim but where’s the evidence. I’m not going around pretending the enemy is diminished when it’s actually not.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      8 hours ago

      Exactly this. I keep reading all of the stuff posted about this and I have yet to see evidence. And in fact, while i’m not a security expert, I am a hosting expert, and I can tell you: That is not how they operate. They obfuscate their origin as much as possible, else it would be trivial to filter them and block them.

      I respect Ukraine and Zelenskyy, but I think this claim is untrue.

      • BurgerBaron@quokk.au
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        7 hours ago

        When laypeople read a diplomatic statement and take it at face value it’s a good sign they’re media illiterate or just want what was said to be true desperately, reality be damned. I know Zelensky is fighting a war and puffing his chest saying shit to look strong. That’s fine it’s his job as wartime leader.

        I’m Albertan so I’m feeling rather paranoid about letting my guard down is all.

    • BrownSugarBits@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      7 hours ago

      https://reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1x3q43a/offsite_comparing_reddit_activity_around_three/

      • BurgerBaron@quokk.au
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        6 hours ago

        That thread was removed and OP admitted it’s ChatGPT generated slop in the comments.

        Could use this source: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7d

        Like Yandex only is: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d

        But again that’s all traffic not just potential political disinfo bots so this still doesn’t really tell me anything other than Yandex data centers got blown up.

Technology@lemmy.world

technology@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 2.27K users / day
  • 8.38K users / week
  • 14.6K users / month
  • 29.6K users / 6 months
  • 2 local subscribers
  • 88.7K subscribers
  • 12.4K Posts
  • 421K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu@lemmy.world
  • Technopagan@lemmy.world
  • L4sBot@lemmy.world
  • L3s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.9
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org