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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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Not in only Russia. The only influence the right has is bot farm generated. Social media presence in Latin America dropped when Fernando Cerimedo was arrested, alleged failed attempt to silence his wife, discovery of major political disinformation & lies campaign bot farms he & a partner operated.

As an citizen, of the planet. I approve. That’s how you defend human freedom, Over computer freedom. Hey, a planet wide…

Remember when the regime falsely arrested Americans, including an Olympian, for committing the crime of vandalism when they knew all along it was shoddy workmanship? The Russian bots cheered on the arrests & energized MAGA into supporting these false arrests. We should not be Putin up with this.

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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.

Zelenskii is a "BAD A**." He' a warrior PRESIDENT! He knows his life is in danger on a daily basis, but he still fights. Trump just pretends he's in danger, so he continues with the ad nauseam fake assassination attempts. So embarrassing to our country. All I want for Christmas is a REAL PRESIDENT.

I applaud the Ukraine for doing the work for all of the free world and am interested in how it may have impacted “dark money”. Why imagine that it’s only Russian data centers doing the same thing? I’m keen to see how it would impact things if they were taken offline in all the world, US next.

Interesting! Every time I see an extremist commenting from "the Left" (like to completely abolish police, etc.), I assume it's a bot - bought and paid for by Elon Musk who recently said Zelensky "has gone too far"...

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...

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social

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.

There are definitely less bots active on pages. I live in PA and John Fetterman usually has hundreds of replies to his posts saying they are Republicans but would vote for him for president. Today it's just everyone telling him to fuck off. Summer Lee usually has racist hate, and it's all love

Funny how the bot count drops every time Ukraine punches Russia in the mouth. Turns out half the loudest "Americans" on here were never Americans at all.

I don't do much on X anymore but on any given day I'd get an average of 10+ followers, most obviously bots. The past day or so...one.

I love this. Putin U R Loosing the War. U have lost your way & just like DonOld your EGO won’t let U STOP. You & DonOld both are going to be taught a Lesson as both of U are destroying your respective Countries & the People will RISE UP & Lock U both up in Jail for the rest of your miserable Lives.

This is exactly what I was thinking! That’s why Trump wants Ukraine not to hit Russia’s data centers. Those power the MAGA-bots! And that’s what Trump was hoping would divide our country and clear a path for him to steal the election.

It is NOT Russian bots we are receiving less of. It is REPUBLICAN BOTS disseminating from Russia that we are receiving less of. It appears that Ukraine has exposed the illegal business transactions between American Republicans and Russia.

No I haven't because I'm on Bluesky only. I get enough from the other sites repeated here and I don't have to read any bullshit at all. If you and others hadn't told me, I would not know anyone is missing.

Kinzinger is pointing at something real. The same drone expertise that clears trenches now clears bot farms. Ukraine learned to fight cheap and distributed, and that skill transfers. Fewer bots is a battlefield side effect.

America was good at the cheap not-the best tankers & airplanes fast during WWII although the US had resources. Giving 💰 to defense contractors era is over.

Because Trump Regime & Republican lawmakers (except Massie) are controlled by right-wing supremacy Zionist Nazi billionaires including tech billionaires & trillionaires to destroy America, freedom & democracy! We have nearly 6,000 data centers while China has about 500. 🤬

Can hardly wait to see which grifter takes her place and what their scam will be, because we already know that is precisely what will happen. Trump’s gotta keep filling up his piggy bank somehow.

I can't afford to pay but as a challenge to hackers ... I'd love to see a program written that can track backward to the original bot's postings and burn out their motherboard! It would be a big challenge to overcome, and people would actually applaud you for it ... Famous rather than Infamous!