2026-10-18 01:46 UTC
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@Oppopity@lemmy.ml 2026-10-18 04:03
Bots did get taken out. A search engine’s data centre got targeted. But it’s the same thing that would’ve happened if it was Google getting their data centres blown up. What we haven’t seen evidence for is that Russian misinformation bots have dropped off.
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@underisk@lemmy.ml 2026-10-18 05:51
This one comes from a Ukrainian propaganda outlet that used AI to “prove” this so I imagine that’s why it seems to conflict with other sources.
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@BCOVertigo@piefed.world 2026-10-18 02:39
Because there are the easy to measure Yandex web scraper bots, and the difficult to measure social manipulation bots. The former dropped noticeably. It may also be that the latter dipped, but thats more difficult to say, and it would behoove a manipulative political entity to spread such operations to as many countries as possible so that they appear more organic and grassroot. Imagine being a social media company with a bot problem though, how honest would you be? There are a lot of groups with motive to mislead in this scenario, so to me it makes sense that we see conflicting accounts regardless of what the truth is.
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@Serinus@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 06:37
They’re trying to use the out that it was search bots, and not social media bots. Which is half true. But the social media bots also measurably dropped. Just look at the likes on Elon’s tweets before and after. They dropped by half. And the social media drop was noticeable elsewhere too. So yes, search bots did in fact drop AND social media bots did too.
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@Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 07:23
There’s a nuance. Bot activity dropped, and everybody basically accepts that. The issue is that most of it is crawlers, and the disagreement comes into how many were social “influencers”. Those tend to pretend to be human, so it’s harder to measure directly.
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@jimmy90@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 07:31
i mean you could read it Following the attacks that resulted in the complete shutdown of ‘Yandex’ data centers in sasovo and vladimir, two sharp declines in activity among the analyzed accounts were recorded on Facebook and Telegram. On October 8, 2026, the overall volume of messages decreased by 83.6%, and on October 12, 2026, by 42.6%. In both cases, the number of active accounts also declined. The same pattern – decline, recovery, and a second decline – was observed among accounts that disseminated destructive content
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@iopq@lemmy.world 2026-10-18 08:22
For example, AfD politicians’ activity did not drop. This is while they support Russia, they are real people. The likes on some people’s accounts went very low, though