The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers
a day ago by BrikoX to c/technology
wyldrstallyns 13 points 18 hours ago
I'm unaware of civilization's general impression of that population's bikini area hygiene, TBF. 🫡
witty_username 2 points 5 hours ago
Oh jeez it took me a while to realise my typo haha
nymnympseudonym 10 points a day ago
effects on pubic opinion
Unfortunately Russian Z-patriots are much much more hypnotized even than US MAGAs.
They need intensive deprogramming and reintroduction into civil society. Temporarily cutting off just one source of propaganda helps a little, but does not put the cancer into remission.
wyldrstallyns 8 points 18 hours ago
If religion's history as a whole is considered, they're more than likely to simply glom onto the next big lie that puts them in the in-crowd. 🧏🏼♂️
TeaWithDani 9 points 15 hours ago
CascadiaRo 7 points 21 hours ago
In Russia or abroad?
witty_username 1 point 5 hours ago
Either/or. I am wondering about the effects on public opinion generally
FridaVanMercury 4 points 19 hours ago
They'll 100% move them somewhere else as quickly as they can.
merc 9 points 9 hours ago
By "Yandex bot" and "Russian bot" what do they mean?
Do we mean "bot", like a social media account that pretends to be an authentic human user, but is actually a "bot", or some other version of something inauthentic? Or do we mean the crawlers that Yandex sends out to crawl websites to refresh its search index?
logan_hero 3 points 7 hours ago
https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots
Bot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic...
RememberTheApollo_ 4 points 10 hours ago
This is in ukraine’s best iterest.
Russian (and Chinese among others) bots drive political unrest, primarily by supporting right wing and nationalist provocateurs to destabilize governments that support Ukraine or NATO.
If Zelensky can silence the trolls, he has a better chance at continued support.
Disregard. It’s Yandex bots, not troll farm bots.
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I wonder of we'll be able to see the effects on pubic opinion. E.g. if political polling will show a noticeable change upon yandex being shut down
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