Apparently engagement on that other site's r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.

A moment of silence for all the conservatives who lost 2/3 of their online friends.
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[–] 132 points 3 weeks ago (23 children)

I'd love to see some site traffic charts during each of the strikes, it would be interesting to see how much of the internets more inflammatory sites are being propped up by IRA bots.

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    Ireland Republican Army, those mfers won't quit until everyone celebrate St Patrick's Day.

    Or this is a typo.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

    Fun fact: in the UK, you can't legally say the IRA are the good guys for opposing British colonialism, because they're "terrorists", but you can join the Orange Order, whom hold a celebration every year celebrating the time they burnt down a house with 3 children inside.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

    Internet Research Agency or Glavset. They are Russias primary troll farm

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  • [+] -17 points 3 weeks ago* (9 children)

    Weird their acronym is in english. I have no doubt it exists, but the layer of propagandization it passed through that we're using an acronym made up by english speakers feels distasteful.

    I had a middle school teacher who would be intentionally deceptive, using terms nobody used to make things sound scary and painting half pictures about cigarettes, drugs, sex, whatever. Even though the overall viewpoint "smoking bad" was correct, the constant obvious bending of the truth did not help her cause.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Their actual name is written in Cyrillic, which you can’t type with a standard QWERTY keyboard. So yeah, English speakers just use the acronym for the translated IRA instead.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Okay? I just didn't feel like typing the full name out.

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  • [+] -20 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Presumably the actual name is something in Russian and "internet research agency" was invented by a journalist to sound scarier than whatever the Russians call it.

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  • [–] 68 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I wanna see the lemmy.ml numbers

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