Post by @michael_w_busch@mastodon.online

2026-10-13 18:38 UTC

Check your sources. Even if you like what they are saying. QT Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social 2026 October 13 Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation. https://bsky.app/profile/katestarbird.bsky.social/post/3mxrjoq7cqs2b

Replies (4)

@grumble209@kolektiva.social 2026-10-13 18:57

@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online Bummer. I guess we'll just have keep blowing up data centers.

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@dianea@lgbtqia.space 2026-10-13 21:33

@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online "More data is needed"

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@slyborg@ohai.social 2026-10-13 21:53

@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online >all data centers run all available campaign bots 🙄 It's entirely possible that bots spamming one thing are knocked offline while bots running campaigns on the other thing are unaffected because they are in a different data center. It's also likely that many of these operate on servers outside of the Russian Federation (and now all of them will probably be relocated)

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@OldSquida2@kolektiva.social 2026-10-14 19:35

@michael_w_busch@mastodon.online it was fun while it lasted. hopeum rises until we know the truth of the thing

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