It is all anecdotes that can be explained by just a placebo effect. Actual bot farms (the kind of bots we’re talking about) don’t exist on search engine data centres. They’re set up in poor countries running on multiple second hand devices using proxies. Bots do exist, but you don’t get rid of them by blowing up a data centres used by a privately owned search engine.
That’s all normally the case, but we already saw evidence from leaked documents that people in the Russian government have paid for misinformation campaigns to influence elections, out of state funds. That’s a pretty significant ethical line to cross.
Running a sanctioned bot farm out of a data center that shouldn’t have one - wouldn’t be that much of a stretch, from what we already have evidence has been happening in recent years.
But in principle, I agree with you. It’s unlikely.
Every country with the means to is going to be using bots. It’s just part of the political landscape at this point.
But to say that a privately owned search company uses most of their servers for Russian bots to sew discord across the world requires evidence. The current trend we just saw was millions of people partaking in mass delusion.
They also say there is no credible intelligence showing foreign actors altered the 2020 vote count. Multiple audits and reviews, many conducted by Republicans, including Trump’s own attorney general at the time, found no evidence of significant fraud.
It is all anecdotes that can be explained by just a placebo effect. Actual bot farms (the kind of bots we’re talking about) don’t exist on search engine data centres. They’re set up in poor countries running on multiple second hand devices using proxies. Bots do exist, but you don’t get rid of them by blowing up a data centres used by a privately owned search engine.
That’s all normally the case, but we already saw evidence from leaked documents that people in the Russian government have paid for misinformation campaigns to influence elections, out of state funds. That’s a pretty significant ethical line to cross.
Running a sanctioned bot farm out of a data center that shouldn’t have one - wouldn’t be that much of a stretch, from what we already have evidence has been happening in recent years.
But in principle, I agree with you. It’s unlikely.
Every country with the means to is going to be using bots. It’s just part of the political landscape at this point.
But to say that a privately owned search company uses most of their servers for Russian bots to sew discord across the world requires evidence. The current trend we just saw was millions of people partaking in mass delusion.
Not even just leaked documents. The geriatric cyberpedo released the proof himself.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-accidentally-proves-putin-helped-him-win-and-sabotaged-biden/ar-AA288QJR
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