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I mean, it's not something we didn't know about, but I kinda feel that news confirming the ridiculous amount of Russian influence on right-wing US social media should be kind of a big deal, no?

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.

12/10/26, 7:07 am1 repost21 likes

Erlend Grefsrud

@erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social

This is exactly the kind of influence ops Western powers have been running against their adversaries and vassals since forever, the internet just made it easier to get in on the game. Only way to avoid them is to clamp down completely on freedom of assembly, speech and press. Don't want that.

SuperMax

@supermax.bsky.social

Apparently this doesn't mean social media bots, just bots in general, like search engine indexing. And yandex is a search engine. Not saying russian social media bots aren't a problem, but I don't think this is what this graph represents.

Michael 🐉

@dragonitespam.bsky.social

I think this is a situation where most of us already knew, and the people on the far-right dont actually care as long as their guy wins :V