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Marcel Dirsus
@marceldirsus.com

"Last night I was truly struck — really, almost radicalized — watching in real time as experts at the heights of their careers unquestioningly boosted emotionally satisfying narratives that were pretty much entirely wrong." www.linkedin.com/pulse/those-...

linkedin.comThose viral claims about plummeting Russian ‘bot’ activity have no basis in factFor two days, X has been deluged by claims of a sharp decline in Russian “bot” activity — supposedly a result of Ukrainian strikes on three Yandex data centers this week. These claims have been promot...

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Marcel Dirsus
@marceldirsus.com

"For two days, X has been deluged by claims of a sharp decline in Russian “bot” activity — supposedly a result of Ukrainian strikes on three Yandex data centers this week...Unfortunately, they’re based on data that has been misunderstood or appears to be entirely made up."

Marcel Dirsus
@marceldirsus.com

"The bigger picture is that the “anti-Russian-influence” field remains vulnerable to large-scale misinformation fueled by motivated reasoning."

Ben R
@reben.bsky.social

"We need to teach media literacy in schools" It was *SO* obviously the perfect lab-grown bsky-crowd slop like come on people...