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Lol Tom's Hardware is credulous
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1x38098/russian_disinformation_bot_traffic_nearly/
Everyone is just patting themselves on the back for this. There is no pushback. Unbelievable.
No data.^[Here's some data: 90% of bots are pro-Ukraine] Just apophenia and rumors. Textbook echo chamber.
The ML model of the world: "Actors, interests, classes, and empires intersect in complex but predictable ways."
The liberal model of the world: "Russia."
Looks like the Tom's hardware article has been modified since. No mention of disinformation anywhere other than the URL. Now it explains that Yandex is a search engine with crawlers.
Journalists keep being the first dominio is disinformation.
They know what they were doing with this subheading. "Russian bots" means disinfo sockpuppets in the common imagination. Nobody is thinking "oh, thank god! Russian search indexes are functioning poorly today. Thank you, Kiev!"
Given that disinformation is in the URL it's basically guaranteed that at least the title of the article used to be different.
I wonder if there are any snapshots of it. Archive.org blocks my VPN so it's a pain for me to check.
Do these dweebs not know what yandex is? They only use american websites? ๐คฃ
They are willfully ignorant
By sending their fascists to die on the frontline?
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