▲ 168 ▼ People are rejoicing about the removal of Russian bots from social media – but the truth is far more complicated (www.the-independent.com) submitted 1 month ago by GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world 16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 child) "Not quite true" sounds like another way of saying "true". permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] underisk@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* Bot traffic is down: meaning the bots that Yandex used to index webpages for their search engine. The article doesn't take very long to make that point; you could have just skimmed it to see that (I did). So it's true, but not in the way people mean it when they say "all the russian bots are gone!". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* Bot traffic is down: meaning the bots that Yandex used to index webpages for their search engine. The article doesn't take very long to make that point; you could have just skimmed it to see that (I did). So it's true, but not in the way people mean it when they say "all the russian bots are gone!". permalink fedilink source parent