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[โ€“] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 54 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

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

cognitohazard

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1x38098/russian_disinformation_bot_traffic_nearly/

This alone might do more for the upcoming elections in some countries than everything else done so far in such countries. Thanks Ukraine. ๐Ÿซก

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Ukraine is doing more in the fight against fascism than any other country currently. The irony being that was the reason Russia used to invade them in the first place.

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Everyone is just patting themselves on the back for this. There is no pushback. Unbelievable.

[โ€“] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 46 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reports from Danish Facebook users is that they have seen a sharp drop of people with Danish names make posts like "Russia isn't the enemy" and "Ukraine is corrupt".

No data.^[Here's some data: 90% of bots are pro-Ukraine] Just apophenia and rumors. Textbook echo chamber.

The entire MAGa cult is a product of Russian intelligence.

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The ML model of the world: "Actors, interests, classes, and empires intersect in complex but predictable ways."

theory-gary

The liberal model of the world: "Russia." aliens

[โ€“] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

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!"

[โ€“] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Given that disinformation is in the URL it's basically guaranteed that at least the title of the article used to be different.

[โ€“] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if there are any snapshots of it. Archive.org blocks my VPN so it's a pain for me to check.

[โ€“] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do these dweebs not know what yandex is? They only use american websites? ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

They are willfully ignorant

[โ€“] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 22 points 2 weeks ago

By sending their fascists to die on the frontline?

[โ€“] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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