The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

Paywall?

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[–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I wonder how many right wing "I am just a normal French/German/American/etc. Person" accounts just went off-line.

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  • 27 comments in c/technology@lemmy.zip view that post
    [–] 30 points 4 weeks ago

    This is a one two punch, not only does it hurt Russia's interests, it may cost the GOP in the upcoming election. Nice way to respond to Trump buying Russian Diesel.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    They'll 100% move them somewhere else as quickly as they can.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (3 children)

    effects on pubic opinion

    Unfortunately Russian Z-patriots are much much more hypnotized even than US MAGAs.

    They need intensive deprogramming and reintroduction into civil society. Temporarily cutting off just one source of propaganda helps a little, but does not put the cancer into remission.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    If religion's history as a whole is considered, they're more than likely to simply glom onto the next big lie that puts them in the in-crowd. 🧏🏼‍♂️

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  • [–] 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

    This is in ukraine’s best iterest.

    Russian (and Chinese among others) bots drive political unrest, primarily by supporting right wing and nationalist provocateurs to destabilize governments that support Ukraine or NATO.

    If Zelensky can silence the trolls, he has a better chance at continued support.

    Disregard. It’s Yandex bots, not troll farm bots.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    Right before the midterms in America.

    This is gonna be bad for MAGA

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Is anyone really on the fence anymore?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Oh god, so many are on the fence still in Idiot America.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-record-low-hispanic-voters-sour-on-republicans-reutersipsos-poll-2026-10-05/

    The poll gave numerous signs that Trump's low popularity was weighing heavily on his Republican Party, with registered voters preferring Democrats over Republicans by 44% to ​37% less than a month before the November 3 election. Among independents, Democrats led 37% to 21%, with 28% ​of independent registered voters still undecided.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago

    American conservatives would elect to get cancer if it had an (R) next to its name. That is, so long as they can fuel up the massive trucks they use to stand in for their tiny cocks, but Trump fucked up diesel pricing.

    I'm guessing 15% are starting to wonder.

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    [–] 17 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    By "Yandex bot" and "Russian bot" what do they mean?

    Do we mean "bot", like a social media account that pretends to be an authentic human user, but is actually a "bot", or some other version of something inauthentic? Or do we mean the crawlers that Yandex sends out to crawl websites to refresh its search index?

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  • [–] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots

    Bot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic...

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Ok, so that's a pretty inoffensive form of bot. It's not the bots pretending to be real people, which is what I think of when I hear "Russian Bot".

    It's presumably also better behaved than the crawlers used by the AI companies. Those just refresh indices, but they're way more aggressive than the ones typically used by search companies, and often don't respect the robots.txt file.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    RIP search engine that still gives good piracy results.

    You'll be missed.

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  • 12 comments in c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz view that post
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  • [–] 40 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Someone said /r/conservative is basically a ghost town as well.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    Trump takes power: we get deepfake adspam for BlueChew

    Zelensky takes power: SPAMMERS DIE

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago

    I'm half expecting Trump to come out and accuse Ukraine of "interfering with the Republican election campaign" or "restricting free speech on social media".

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  • [–] 18 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Maybe Cloudflare should strike a deal with the Ukrainian government.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 weeks ago

    Welcome to the Ryan Macbeth School of targeting disinformation

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