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🟢 LOW CREDIBILITY: We find that viral claims that drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia have impacted coordinated inauthentic social media activity are misstated and unfalsifiable. Treat such claims with skepticism, and bookmark this tracker. russianbots.america2.news

If it's not true, we need to figure that out. And fast. Because the consequences of incorrectly believing it to be true could be just as bad as incorrectly believing it to be false.

Right now there are a lot of people making claims that are either unfalsifiable, untrue, or simply fabricated. There is no data-based evidence to point to because there is no one central way to measure this outside of the platforms themselves, and they aren't talking.

IIRC, there used to be an organization in the late 1990s early 2000s that monitored and assessed internet traffic for international threats. I don't remember their name, or if they still exist. It might have been related to SpamCop, somehow.

Well, I propose we continue the experiment, and let Ukraine keep bombing more Russian data centers until we're certain, one way or the other.

Yes, I am in favor of this experiment.