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

Or this is a typo.

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

its russia primary troll farms, internet research angecy.

Based on what I have seen and the people I have engaged with on ML I think most of them on here are just completely brainwashed by Chinese and Russian propaganda. But I'm sure there are bots or Russian trolls as well.

Have you seen the state of everything? I'll take some placebo right now.

I was told there'd be no fact checking

It's pretty fucking annoying how pervasive this as of yet completely unverified story is.

Yeah there for awhile there were 2 variants of the exact same meme template about this that were the top 1 and 2 posts in my "All" tab. Was kinda weird.

Yeah but I'm not seeing evidence that those bots are gone tho. I saw some graph claiming a dip in Yandex web crawlers. That's it. And even that, the sourcing of it all comes back to one MP for the European Parliament? Like that's the whole source? Are we really believing those douchebags?

And anyone who even gives a single fuck about that isn't worth listening to. Nor is their opinion on anything worth any weight. They can go back to COD if it bothers them that much. Calling everyone else snowflakes while they do it lmao

That is a strawman of course, what is not a strawman is that a lot of the online discourse just mirrors Russian propaganda lines, especially once you go to AfD or FPÖ forums. It is almost 1to1 the RT narrative. Maybe just by accident and not related to evidence of Russia sponsoring and running right populist anti EU media platforms in Europe.

In the US they are just called content creators and tiktokers.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/joke

Rekt 😎

I skimmed this article, but I don't see one mention of r/conservative, or frankly, any subreddit in general. I'll give it a closer read in an hour if I can (at the gym, got an assignment to do later) but I'm not confident this addresses the specific claim the post is making.

The Hip were about the only good thing to come out of that town.

I don't really see how mentions of the subreddit is meaningful of how many bots there were. There are so many posts about r/conservative being down from other subreddits that I can't see the correlation

It's not mentions of r/conservative, it's mentions (posts and comments) in the subreddit.

There could be multiple reasons for this.

1. The bots are used only for generating engagement and not posting. So engagements went down, posts didn't.
2. The bots are used on Twitter and not on Reddit so twitter was impacted but reddit wasn't. Kinda likely considering twitter loves bots and reddit has been cracking down on them.
3. Engagement is not a very transparent metric, and depends on a lot of factors like when content is posted, the quality of the content, seasknality, etc. There can be multiple things affecting engagement.

Because it's a quick search and not a dedicated query, I guess the historical data collection is stopping at 56 days instead of going all the way to 60. Same thing happens when I look at any other sub.

Lemmy.world was just down. Nvm

The Putin/monkey hybrid looks a lot like King Charles.

they will what me? tneoo shill ndig meh? i hate mixing alphabets