Have you noticed fewer bots in your feed recently? Thanks to Ukraine, our social media mentions are a little less chaotic now.
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Have you noticed fewer bots in your feed recently? Thanks to Ukraine, our social media mentions are a little less chaotic now.
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BOMBSHELL🇺🇲 Report States Iranian Oil Going To Russia🇷🇺 Are we paying Putin To kill americans?
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Note that it’s not the postings that were affected - it’s the fake views and likes that boost Russian-favored real and fake accounts. On dashboards.cluvio.com you can filter for right wing account engagement on X - big drops for Elon Musk, Catturd, etc.
I would love this to be true, but Kate Starbird (who researches this stuff for a living) has not been able to find evidence that it is. bsky.app/profile/kate...
Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.
Yandex Bingo Board courtesy of Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social