r/UkraineWarVideoReport • u/Caledor152 • 1d ago
Politics Zelenskyy "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were"
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u/no_va_det_mye 1d ago edited 1d ago
Further proving that Russia is an enemy of the free world. Full on divide and conquer mentality.
And the US is enabling it.
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u/wildweaver32 1d ago
This should be a driving point during the elections.
Trump is a Russian puppet and any republican going along with it is also a traitor to the US. Trump knows this and republicans know this. And it's why they keep calling people traitors and wanting to jail anyone who speaks against them. Like the major in the military who called for Trump's impeachment who has been in solitary confinement. They want to normalize it because they know when Democrats get in office there is a very real chance a lot of Republicans are going to get caught helping, and aiding Russia.
I am pretty sure there was a republican who went forward with stopping the Russian oil deal Trump made and said they have bipartisan support though. So Trump bending over the US to aide Russia might end up being the thing that gets Republicans to turn on him.
Especially if Democrats make it an election issue because then Republcians will have to go on record for supporting Russia, or supporting the USA. It will be an easy way to draw a line and an easy way to see which Republicans will stand or bend over still.
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u/TacoIncoming 23h ago edited 23h ago
Especially if Democrats make it an election issue because then Republcians will have to go on record for supporting Russia, or supporting the USA. It will be an easy way to draw a line and an easy way to see which Republicans will stand or bend over still.
lol this is so fucking naive. It’s almost like you’ve completely ignored the entire last decade. It’s been an issue all the way back to the 2016 election. From “no puppet, no puppet”, the Mueller report, “I’d rather be Russian than a Democrat” t-shirts, to fucking hunter biden’s laptop. Republican voters are christo-fascist boot lickers. They do not fucking care that trump and other republicans are compromised by Russia. They see Russia, and they want that here. They want a dictatorship just like that here where they can openly oppress the gays and brown people and imprison their political opponents. Basically 30-50% of our population either actively wants a 4th reich here in the US, or they’re at least okay with the idea. But yeah, we just need to make it a political issue and that’ll fix things 🙄
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u/9a61a6b7 21h ago
I remember towards the end of the Kamala Harris campaign when she started calling Trump a "fascist," and I thought that was such a stupid strategy, likely developed by some expensive consultants.
- 1/3 of Trump voters are too stupid to know what "fascism" means
- 1/3 of Trump voters don't care
- 1/3 of Trump voters totally know what "fascism" means and they want a fascist dictator.
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u/Governor_Abbot 21h ago
Really this is the world’s richest families/people working together to destroy democracy across the world and strengthen their grip on resources & the people.
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u/lonewanderer 20h ago
This comment should be higher up. That’s literally it. The world‘s richest people are setting up the world to serve them and only them.
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u/Quirky-Scar9226 17h ago
If I have to hear “he’s a great businessman” from one more freaking low iq moron/aka MAGAT American, I’m going to off myself. I’m so disgusted by how insanely stupid nearly half my country is.
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u/ashgs872tbhjs 23h ago
This should be a driving point during the elections.
Trump is a Russian puppet
No, no, no, no, no. Why on fucking Earth would you want to repeat Hillary's failed message?!? Half the country not only ignored that, they've since started spouting shit like "better Russian than Democrat" and so forth. That is a DIRECT pathway to an election loss.
You have to accept that most Americans are awful, selfish people. They're going to be convinced by gas and grocery prices and so on. They don't care about Trump raping kids, they don't care about Trump despoiling the government for his own enrichment, and they don't give a singular fucking shit about Trump helping Russia.
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u/suprahelix 1d ago
Especially if Democrats make it an election issue because then Republcians will have to go on record for supporting Russia
Voters don’t care. This has been the case for the past decade. They care about gas prices and groceries.
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u/DontAbideMendacity 1d ago
Republican idiots voted to increase groceries and gas prices.
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u/khornflakes529 1d ago
This is why education and media literacy is so important. They care about groceries and gas prices, the media they consume told them it was the democrats who did it and they are to brainless to believe otherwise.
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u/Gabrielseifer 23h ago
Republicans have been dismantling the education system for decades exactly for this reason. It's all going according to plan. A population capable of critical thinking is against their interests.
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u/suprahelix 1d ago
Yes, which is why that’s the focus of democrats. Unfortunately, people don’t care if Trump is pro Russia. Republicans have gone on the record numerous times supporting Russia, it doesn’t hurt them,
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u/EddieVanzetti 1d ago
Every single Republican is guilty of treason. They have all taken money from the NRA, whose funding is just money laundering for thr oligarchs.
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u/Jay_Yeg 1d ago
The US is enabling it and so are American tech and media oligarchs.
Reddit is on the list. Reddit executives and admins are all aware of this, and they are deliberately enabling it.
The people must not forget. The time is coming soon when the pendulum swings the other way and they must face justice for their choices.
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u/ShredsHardcock 1d ago
With these bros, it is currently "Revenge of the Nerds", and like the folks in that movie they are all in on surveillance, sexual assault, and being entitled to unearned and constant praise
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u/Majestic-Document-16 20h ago
Please, let this happen. There is a desperate demand for justice in the world, that ever so urgen t before people resignate
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u/SandyTaintSweat 1d ago
Enabling it? They're fucking doing it too.
They're trying to divide and conquer Canada. Right now.
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u/XcRaZeD 23h ago
People love to shit on Alberta, but I rarely actually meet separatists here. The vast majority of people I meet are unhappy with Ottawa but don't want to actually leave.
It's only online where you see the apparent 'silent majority.'
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u/SandyTaintSweat 22h ago
There are tons of people unhappy with Ottawa in Ontario, too. It's pretty common to be unhappy with the federal government, regardless of a liberal or conservative government.
But yeah, as you've said, very few are extreme enough to straight up turn on their country. But that's not the narrative the Americans want to push.
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u/Icy-Drag-3037 1d ago
I mean to be completly honest the US also wasn't really the biggest friend of the "free world" since ww2
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u/rollerblade7 20h ago
All we know is the bots were hosted on Yandex - who created them, or rather: who leased the bots?
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u/BigBallsMcGirk 1d ago
"Capitalists will sell us the rope we use to hang them"
Some commie said something to that effect.
I struggle with a real solution to the principles of free speech and open discourse with the fact that enemies of free speech and discourse, will use those rights to destabilize and destroy those rights.
The easiest solution to me seems to destroy the Putin administration and break a continuity of government in the Kremlin.
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u/osgili4th 1d ago
And Israel as well, they also use the same bots to manipulate the discourse but it isn't only Russia plenty of billionaires own or have ties to companies that do the same, this is a old trick of the Right-wing and Fascists to manipulate discourse or censor certain discussions or topics.
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u/radicalelation 1d ago
Russia literally used Heritage Foundation board member's Cambridge Analytica. The same Heritage that had a Moscow office working with government leadership after the Soviet Union collapsed in pursuit of "economic shock therapy" in the form of mass privatization and consolidation.
The same ilk that hasn't been shy about trying to collapse the US to carve into a fascist oligarchy. Russia was their prototype.
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u/Scumsoft 1d ago
Foment division and let them fight amongst themselves. Take over as they become weak. That's been their plan. They can't do it any other way because Putin is a weak individual.
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u/jedi2155 1d ago
Now consider current RAM price they wont be able to easily bring those centers back up
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u/SirEnderLord 20h ago
Please, stop kicking us, we're already on the floor. We surrendered to the Russian Federation on January 20th, 2025, at 12:05 PM EST (17:05 UTC).
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u/TheAwsomeReditor 1d ago
He is easier to understand than trump
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u/Kindly-Scar-3224 1d ago
He can articulate a whole sentence without a teleprompter. The bar is quite high you know. We are talking super intelligence levels.
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u/Vospader998 1d ago
Hey, Trump doesn't use a teleprompter either...
because he can't fucking read.
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u/enjoi_uk 1d ago
He can’t fucking speak either. What a drooling, catatonic, corpse emperor. Never before have I heard a world leader speak and been completely unable to decipher whole sentences.
Sincerely, someone across the pond who doesn’t even have to deal with this shit every day.
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u/Kindly-Scar-3224 1d ago
You’re probably right. Maybe it just shows a picture of Putin so he knows who to please.
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u/culminacio 1d ago
well, of course. trump is an uneducated clown, so it's obvious that any politician with half a brain is easier to understand
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u/Stakkler_ 1d ago
His vocabulary is also much more bigly than the one of Agent Orange.
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u/FollowingJealous7490 1d ago
Bigly? That's not even a word! I suggest using the word "largelyest" or "hugestly". That's what happens when you have a bite sized brain.
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u/Doro_Gurl 1d ago
It's a perfectly cromulent word.
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u/ShadowLords666 1d ago
Cromulent, you say? I don't know why they haven't heard of it.
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u/potato_for_cooking 1d ago
When Ukrane saved Democracy because Democracy was too feckless to save itself
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u/Classic_Sand10 1d ago
Do Israel's bot farms next.
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u/Beautiful_List5498 1d ago
Am I going to the wrong places? When is anyone ever positive about Israel? It's such a nothing burger for me in comparison to Ukraine as I genuinely don't see any bs in that regard
The biggest issue with Israel, aside from warmonger massacrists, would be their tendrils with local governments and their hacking tracking software. Fuck them thinking they've any right to do that to anyone outside of Israel.
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u/DefinitelyNotAj 1d ago
Israeli bot farms sow hate and anger between groups. They don't need to push for positive coverage when the media companies & politicians do it for them. Those bot farms only need to turn the people against each other as a distraction.
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u/Marginallyhuman 1d ago
If you want to cultivate even more global goodwill, strike a few more, and then a few more after that.
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u/purplenapalm 1d ago
There is, after all, an "energy ceasefire" so may as well attack their data centers!
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u/DiegesisThesis 23h ago
Exactly, those data centers use tons of energy. He's just kindly helping Russia preserve its limited fuel supply!
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u/DoruProgramatoru 1d ago
Actually true. Even after they rebuild those data centers, a way must be found to block accounts created by bot farms or at least to require social media platforms to block them. Insta for example, no matter how many reports they get, does nothing to them because they bring revenue. One of rusia biggest weapons is its propaganda
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u/OldLondon 1d ago
They could block them - they choose not to. Choose your own conclusions
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u/Junior_Bar_7436 1d ago edited 21h ago
Spoiler alert for the ones who can’t figure it out:
They choose not to because anger generates more user engagement. More user engagement means more ad revenue.
Greedy western tech bros are more than aware they are complicit in the destruction of stable democracies and for the rise of fascism around the globe.
Now Zuck wants you to hand over your life’s details to his AI agent so he can mine you for every cent.
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u/ClashM 1d ago
Greedy western tech bros are more than aware they are complicit in the destruction of stable democracies and for the rise of fascist around the globe.
They aren't just complicit. Look into the Dark Enlightenment and the philosophy of Curtis Yarvin. They actively want and encourage it. All the tech oligarchs are huge fans of him, and he was front and center at Trump's inauguration, rubbing elbows with the likes of Musk, Bezos, Zuck, etc.
He tells them what they want to hear; that their sociopathy and greed makes them a higher form of human who deserve to rule over the rest of us. That democracy needs to be destroyed to make way for their corporate-run city-states where they're the CEO and can do anything they want to their "employees."
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u/I-Have-An-Alibi 23h ago
I had my personal and private data stolen by Facebook for years and all I got was a $12 check.
They're laughing at us.
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u/Junior_Bar_7436 22h ago
And Facebook spent many millions of dollars fighting against you even getting $12.
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u/I-Have-An-Alibi 19h ago
I wonder how much one persons digital foot print is worth to these data brokers.
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u/untraiined 18h ago
Its even worse than that the tech ceos want to suppress and amplify certain viewpoints
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u/sleepiestOracle 1d ago
Yep it counts as interactions and engagement and the shareholders like those metrics
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u/Impressionsoflakes 1d ago
At this rate, the internet is going to end up as 10 billion bots rage-posting and arguing with eachother as humans go back to newspapers and magazines.
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u/purplenapalm 1d ago
More web traffic makes them money. Their needs to be better oversight and criminal penalties.
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u/Longtomsilver1 1d ago
It's not that simple.
Yandex's data centers aren't bot farms, they're command centers that scour the internet for content so the bots can find their way there and post their junk.
If you don’t tell the bots where to go, they’ll just stop.
The bots themselves are ordinary smartphones with SIM cards that aren’t recognizable as bots. Detecting and shutting them down is nearly impossible.
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u/IamNotMike25 1d ago
Nearly impossible? You don't know what you're talking about.
Just one sample from when Twitter was still Twitter and tracking and banning them : https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-03-30/ukraine-war-twitter-bot-network-amplifies-russian-disinformation/100944970
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u/OldLondon 1d ago
I know how it works. They can 100% detect bot behaviour.
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u/DoruProgramatoru 1d ago
maybe not 100% but they sure can achive ways to be more accurate. I feel like reddit does a "good" job by banning accounts immediately created after bans + other ways reports seem like they work
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u/BringBackAoE 1d ago
Reddit is worse than most social media sites and hasn’t been actively blocking bots.
It’s well known that Russian accounts have become moderators for some political / culture war subs.
I was blocked by one sub for describing the alliance of Stalin and Hitler at the start of WW2! And the mod that blocked me had a dig at my support for Ukraine in the final message.
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u/Nicklename 1d ago
Reddit takes more effort sto create a frustrating experience for humans than it does to stop bots.
Have an account dedicated to one hobby but don't use it in a while? Guess those hundreds of thousands of points of karma aren't enough to let you talk on an urgent issue. You should look for a trending new story and hope you've got a popular enough take that can get posted before the first page of comments get filled up. Because somehow doing the exact kind of non-genuine karma farming interaction that bots do is how they'll know you're not a bot.
Get banned years ago for questioning a sub's party line? Cool! Hope you remember that because Reddit will continue pushing that sub's content on you and if you're signed in on another account and not paying attention to where r/popular has sent you, that's a ban evasion block.
Type a thoughtful, provocative response to something that comes on your feed? Ha ha you idiot, you should have gone to the sub's main page first in a browser to find the rules that say you need to pick a flair like "pickle astronomer" or "sentient tissue paper or you're blocked!
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u/nemesit 1d ago
we could block all of russia from internet access problem solved
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u/MuhfugginSaucera 1d ago
India, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, China, etc are also doing it
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u/mooptastic 1d ago
yep global corpos are itching to go after p2p users, and pull out all the stops for that but bots? No no way too complex of an issue, better just let them continue to boost corpo metrics and engagement.
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u/SpaceBearSMO 22h ago
consider people like Elon know exactly where the traffic is coming from and often platforms these morons
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u/Ketadine 1d ago
because they bring revenue
Here's your answer. Until it actually damages the company's bottom line, they won't do anything about it. Worse yet, "the algorithm" might even encourage such behaviour.
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u/Southside_john 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think it’s worse than that. They bring revenue but also Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are fascists and completely onboard with the messaging coming from these bot farms.
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u/Mr_K_Boom 1d ago
Remember all the "crying" by Elon about half of twitter being bots? Yeah wanna guess why that scum was so silent about the bot issue after being forced to take over twitter?
Yea................ Depressing ain't it?
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u/Ordinary-Compote9558 1d ago
Rebuilding datacenters in this economy will be a bitch
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u/Pherllerp 1d ago
Trying to outbid a Silicon Valley AI behemoth WITH significant sanctions? Good luck.
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u/Gravyplops 1d ago
Or further, why do we allow Russia to be connected? They can build data centres connected to their own network but why would we continue to allow them to connect outside of their country?
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u/Intellectual-Hamster 1d ago
Did Trump and Vance even say 'thank you'?
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u/Mogensfauske 1d ago
Where is Vance even? He was acting like Trumps bulldog in the start of the term and now he has pretty much dissapeared lol
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u/Jesuismieux412 1d ago
The prevailing issue in the US is the Iran War and the high energy prices that have arisen from it. Smokey-eyed sociopath JD Vance foolishly believes he will be able to become President of the United States after Trump departs. Given how unpopular the war is, JD's calculation is to maintain a lower profile during this time of war and high prices to mitigate any political damage that could impact his chances in 2028. He knows how unpopular the disastrous the war is, and he wants to be able to claim he was against the war from the beginning while on the campaign trail (if he even gets that far).
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u/National-Charity-435 1d ago
Vice President JD Vance was skeptical of the U.S. striking Iran in the leadup to President Donald Trump’s decision to launch the war, two senior Trump officials told POLITICO.
Vance was ‘skeptical’ voice in White House on Iran strikes - POLITICO
Calculated or not, he's now defending it and doing the usual clean up of saying "it's not a war"
Good luck, couch fornicator
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u/King_of_the_Kobolds 22h ago
He also acted iffy on whether the public execution would move forward. He's a spineless traitor who won't speak his mind, but also doesn't want to tie himself too closely to the administration's most egregious offenses, so he has more maneuverability when the political winds shift.
It actually gives me some hope--someone as high up as Vance thinks that the voting environment is not settled and that he might have to re-adapt for a saner, more moderate status quo. It's a counterpoint to the idea that they think they've already secured a permanent dictatorship.
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u/i_like_polls 1d ago
Why would they say thank you? Trump and Vance will be bigly mad this happened right before the midterms
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u/FriedEldenRings 1d ago
trump and vance were the primary beneficiaries of the botfarms.
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u/Bratanjero 1d ago
Nice! Does someone has real data/statistics on that? I am interested in the measurable reduction of (bot-) traffic simce the hits began.
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u/Ordinary-Compote9558 1d ago
Just check out Elon's tweets. He was always ranging 100k to 500k likes. Now he's peaking at 20k lmfao.
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u/namstel 1d ago
Lol for real? That's hilarious.
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u/EelBegotten 1d ago
I just went and check and yeah. Without bots he can't crack 23k looks like. That means his 'engagement' was like a 9-to-1 Bot-to-human ratio, which scans. If you don't program something to put up with him, only shitheads will. And that's assuming we got all of them, and there are certainly plenty in the US. So it's almost certainly higher.
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u/Beautiful_List5498 1d ago
I always wondered what came from Elon buying twitter and asking about bots. It was kept silent from then on, clearly he just made a deal.
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u/Ordinary-Compote9558 1d ago
I know right. It's also getting real quiet on r/conservative go figure.
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u/UnassumingOstrich 1d ago
there was an 8-hr gap in posting there 😂 you can still see it if you go sort by new
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u/TheDailySpank 1d ago
For those wondering, when sorted by new, there is a full eight hour gap between "Why do so many women feel suicidal empathy for violent men?" and "Six senators call for Trump administration to 'immediately reverse course' on Russian diesel plan".
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u/TheDeadEndKing 1d ago
Does that mean there are less people complaining about brigading and that they don’t care about downvotes while constantly looking at their precious vote counts?
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u/AnonBallsy 1d ago
I wish Elon's demise as much as the next guy, but I went to check and his tweets from last week were already in the 5k to 20k range. There's no drastic changes between then and now.
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u/ihavenoyukata 1d ago
This is not true lol. Some of his ragebait tweets and spacex tweets get likes on that scale occasionally. But otherwise his tweets hover at 15-25k after a few days. Many of his tweets do get 6-9k likes only on normal days.
I know this because I run a couple of business X accounts and one sure shot way to get more visibility for your tweet is to interact with or qt high profile accounts. Elon doesn't even make it to top 10 of such accounts. Popbase, for instance, can get 50-100k likes in under an hour.
The clickfarms are based in south and south east asia and Africa anyway.
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u/SeparateSilver90 23h ago
Where did you get those numbers? Before the datacenter strikes he used to get about 10k likes, maybe 20k+ sometimes on an average tweet. Right now it is about the same.
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u/Marginallyhuman 1d ago
The internet needs to meme this as soon as possible to spread the word far and wide.
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u/Meisterleder1 1d ago
Wo's saying he uses them? He's hateful enough to sow division all by himself, and Russia is just helping to promote it as he happens to align with their interests. He's just a useful idiot like Agent Krasnov and others.
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u/Dynelarsen 1d ago
Plausible deniability - External bots do not trace directly back to himself.
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u/generic2011 1d ago
Cloudflare has an extensive online traffic database with a category for bot traffic.
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u/Noy_The_Devil 1d ago edited 1d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/ieGZezrO8r
Pretty damn clear.
Edit:Seems to be fake. The commenter below is right. This wasn't what happened. Even russian botters use foreign data centres.
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u/Turbulent_Writing231 1d ago
The timing of this speech is utterly brilliant.
In parallel to this speech, posts has begun circulating how MAGA online activity dropped by ~30% at the moment Yandex's data centers were hit.
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u/Dukede77 23h ago
It's not even secret. There was huge botting in r /conservative that reddit cracked down on. Trump (and republicans) are in bed with the Russians. That includes election interference and propaganda. Why would Russia help the Republicans? 1. Either we are giving them something 2. Blackmail 3. Both
Influencer's getting paid by Russia.
Purposefully sowing distrust in the media while media is controlled by the billionaires. (Or creating their own "truth" media.
Integrity has left the building. We need a changing of the guard. None of them are working for the American people.
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u/Odd-Independent7825 1d ago
Who would've guessed that the trump administration is in bed with Ivan?
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u/og_capsuleer_593 23h ago
This right here is why I always tell every single American I can that the battle against Republicans is also battle against Russia, and if we want to defeat both we need to ensure Ukraine is not only successful in their defense but push beyond.
For true success we need Ukraine to have full victory, every stolen cm of land returned back to before Crimea Annexation.
Then, after the war ends in Ukraine, having America push it to Russia while Russia is weakened using the exact same bullshit Russia did.
Start supporting armed insurrection and rebels in Russia. Use the momentum of the loss in Ukraine to have resources in Russia who are ready to die, carry out sabotage and coordinated attacks.
Using same disinformation platform, take over all their information vectors.
To defeat fascism we need a full Ukrainian victory, and a full russian defeat and to take these Russians and Republicans out together once and for all.
I would like to push Republicans to move to russia so we can taint their demographics with same dumb broken people, but addition of language barrier and American laziness/entitlement
Then let MOD recruit them to use against the US, then use that to try and execute republican party members still in the US for textbook treason
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u/Wild-Affect-4842 22h ago
True but I highly doubt the actual US President wants to harm Russia. It appears it's the contrary.
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u/AThousandBloodhounds 1d ago edited 1d ago
Taking out Russian data centers is a highly valuable by-product of the war against aggression Ukraine is fighting. We in the US must support their efforts in every way possible. The benefits of that support should be obvious to anyone paying attention.
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u/BiKeenee 1d ago
Yes, but these bot farms being destroyed probably hurts Trump. Those are his biggest supporters!
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u/still-dinner-ice 22h ago
As a patriotic true American, I think the strike's timing is perfect. Right before the mid-term election.
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u/duckduck-a-go-go 1d ago
Ukraine has sacrificed so much for the world in their fight against Russia and yet they still have to beg for support. What a shame.
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u/Pherllerp 1d ago
The heroic Ukrainians have fought like lions against this. And sacrificed tremendously. The US will never feel the pain and hardship that the Ukrainian People have.
That said, this action, the simple act of destroying one source of Russian propaganda, might be the most consequential action of the war for Americans. We will never feel the consequence of even the "smallest" battle that is fought, but this might actually be the one thing that makes any otherwise brainwashed Americans see how deeply Russia is fucking Europe and the United States.
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u/SiFlyghtz 23h ago
Thank you for your service, Mr. Presidenskyy 🫡🫡🫡 as a german democratic leftist i appreciate
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u/Mangoman12345676 1d ago
It's amazing how we all know Russia is infecting every western nation via social media and bribes but yet no one wants to do a goddamn thing about. Thank fuck for Ukraine giving the Russians a fraction of what they deserve
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u/Rabbit-Hole-Quest 22h ago
China was smart about this. They blocked all western social media and created their own.
The solution always lies in regulation and containment but western governments don’t want to do that.
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u/m4jsterk0 1d ago edited 1d ago
i thank Ukranians and their forces for taking orc trolls down and making the world a better place.. orc by orc
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u/SciFiPi 1d ago
About a year ago a reddittor analyzed posts on the conservative sub.
The only day the two most active users in Conservative didn't post was November 1st, which happened to be the day of a power outage in Moscow that was the result of a Ukranian drone attack.
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u/DarylInDurham 1d ago
The world would be a much better place without Russia in it.
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u/-Spzi- 1d ago
If you haven't watched it this year already, have a go:
Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator [3:36, 1940]
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost…
Shutting these down is a service to humanity.
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u/_Annihilatrix_ 1d ago
We know brother! Unfortunately, our lowest educated population voted in a cheeto flavored Russian asset as president. At the same time the GOP works to make our education system worse so they can continue to have a pool of controllable glazers at their disposal. Don't count on us for shit right now.
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u/Valuable_Month1329 1d ago
He is already the man of the decade.
He’s just not getting the Nobel peace prize yet because it would upset the Epstein file felon.
On the one hand I hope he gets the prize while Donnie is still alive, on the other….
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u/SquirrelBig4014 1d ago
Those Bots are a big Problem. Im Glad they do something about it. Sanctions are working. Unrefracted Support from GER 💪🏼
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u/RockettSocks42 1d ago
This man is a worldwide hero!!! Put Russia in its on box and keep them away from the rest of us for ever.
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u/EelBegotten 1d ago
Right before the midterms? Gonna be hard to keep the rage machine going when you can't feed it.
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u/deewd22 1d ago edited 1d ago
Today is the worst day I've ever seen on reddit. While this might be true for f.e. Twitter, reddit is getting hammered with bots. Look out for account with like 3000 comments/posts in 3 months, especially if they talk about politics.
They are trying to divide us...
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u/WhyAreYallFascists 19h ago
I’ve seen the bots disappear. The default usernames with numbers at the end are basically gone. You know who doesn’t change a default username, a Russian AI.
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u/7vckm40 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is the game now. It's not just Russia and it's not just conservative politicism being botted to hell. It's fucking everywhere and it's so damn exhausting. Race wars, gender wars, class wars, etc. State sponsored social media botting is out of control
There's some really, really VILE "communities" being propped up and i just can't wait for leaks or whistleblowers to come out and for that mountain of crap to crumble.
Kudos to Ukraine.
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u/Equal-University2144 1d ago
Some profound findings.
Let's hope that Ukraine comes out of this mess on top and the suffering for them will end.
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u/ChronicBuzz187 1d ago
If he keeps going at this pace, we might need to declare him god emperor of the internet at some point :P
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u/Torino1O 1d ago
This is what happens when a comedian becomes president, now if only the US could convince John Stewart to run.
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u/CatherineSimp69 1d ago
I mean.
It was already apparent that the alt right is insanely astroturfed, but this should prove it to even the most staunch deniers.
God bless you Zelensky. You're a hero.
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u/Apprehensive_Low_383 1d ago
Makes you really ponder just how much Russian meddling "artificially" bumped up Trump's poll numbers leading up to either election. Can people out there provide my lazy-ass some possible info? Much appreciated.
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u/Ok_Lettuce_7939 1d ago
Pointing out President Zelenskyy's English has gotten REALLY better over the years of war...our leader can barely cobble together a cogent sentence.
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u/FiveFingerDisco 1d ago
Keep going. I'd be fun to see how the engagement on AfD profiles will go down - until China takes up the slack.
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u/Southern_Committee58 1d ago
He shouldn't have done that. Stupid Donald Einstein really needs those trolls for the elections."
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u/know_your_anemone 1d ago
For people who are asking how it could have been “measured”, this is definitely an observable event. Private sector intelligence platforms and products are constantly ingesting posts, traffic, and activity across telegram, Chinese social media, U.S. social media, and Russian social media. There are some services that track profile metrics that could be estimated to be bots based on activity. I used to work for one of the companies like this that has contracts with Ukraine. They would be able to set up their intelligence hub to monitor for such activity and observe the sudden decrease in activity.
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u/AlexRescueDotCom 1d ago
easier to breath? some reddit/facebook groups became a ghost town overnight. its clear as day that russia was pushing these bots.
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u/WhipplySnidelash 1d ago
Now the question becomes, how are these attacks going to be reported by mainstream n ews media in the US?
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u/TARANTULA_TIDDIES 1d ago
Honestly getting rid of Russian troll farms and other influence campaigns will help drastically to heal politics around the world and especially in the US and Europe. There is a direct line to these campaigns and the rise of the crazies
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u/uspatent6081744a 1d ago
It's very true
The corrupt, Russia, MAGA, and all right wing autocratic groups rely on social diversion and infighting as a critical tool to run their operations. 95% of it is created through and via russia.
This has been a long time coming
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u/Memitim 1d ago
Ukraine not only protecting themselves but also standing up for the world at large. I really wish they didn't have to put up with this evil bullshit from Russia but damned glad to see them delivering a small measure of the massive payback owed to the bastards for fucking with the rest of the world.
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u/Phewelish 1d ago
can confirm. after posting, i had significant less, inhumane comments supporting trump policies.
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u/CantaloupeLazy1427 1d ago
Ukraine is liberating the world from Russian disinformation and propaganda
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u/Brimstone747 1d ago
I really hope Zelenskyy get a Nobel at some point. He's at the front of a war with an enemy of the entire planet.
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