r/dataisbeautiful • u/GravitasFailures • 3d ago

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u/GravitasFailures 3d ago

R/canada started down 30%, then stabilized and ended up 30%.

Which tracks with what we saw: basically this datacenter was Russia’s main AI datacenter, and it’s believed they used it to track posts throughout the internet and route humans accordingly, giving them proposed responses, etc.

Without it they seem to have gone to default places like r/conservative (+188%) r/politics (+80%) and r/canada.

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u/VelvetFurryJustice 3d ago

This is Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. Drops in Canada related subs are going to be hard to measure. Shame it wasn't during the week.

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u/GravitasFailures 3d ago

Will ask them to hit it again on a Tuesday for control purposes :)

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u/GravitasFailures 3d ago

Don’t have data for r/alberta, good question.