Apparently engagement on that other site's r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.
alcoholicorn 17 points 8 hours ago
IRA?
TheLunatickle 10 points 7 hours ago
Not a typo, just a shared acronym.
alcoholicorn 8 points 8 hours ago
Fun fact: in the UK, you can't legally say the IRA are the good guys for opposing British colonialism, because they're "terrorists", but you can join the Orange Order, whom hold a celebration every year celebrating the time they burnt down a house with 3 children inside.
TheLunatickle 18 points 7 hours ago
Internet Research Agency or Glavset. They are Russias primary troll farm
alcoholicorn -11 points 7 hours ago
Weird their acronym is in english. I have no doubt it exists, but the layer of propagandization it passed through that we're using an acronym made up by english speakers feels distasteful.
I had a middle school teacher who would be intentionally deceptive, using terms nobody used to make things sound scary and painting half pictures about cigarettes, drugs, sex, whatever. Even though the overall viewpoint "smoking bad" was correct, the constant obvious bending of the truth did not help her cause.
Carl 7 points 3 hours ago
Their actual name is written in Cyrillic, which you can’t type with a standard QWERTY keyboard. So yeah, English speakers just use the acronym for the translated IRA instead.
Tar_alcaran 6 points 3 hours ago
Most subtle .ml propagandist.
TheLunatickle 4 points 7 hours ago
Okay? I just didn't feel like typing the full name out.
Fredthefishlord 1 point 3 hours ago
A shockingly large amount of countries use English abbreviations officially
Tollana1234567 6 points 4 hours ago
its russia primary troll farms, internet research angecy.
Ioughttamow 19 points 7 hours ago
Now they are the silent majority lol gottem
wreckedcarzz 3 points 2 hours ago
Rekt 😎
Tollana1234567 4 points 4 hours ago
the yandex datacenter strikes from ukraine, caused bot traffic from russia on some social media platforms to drop to zero or close to it. most if it was stoking division in conservative communities.
itsjustachairmary 36 points 7 hours ago
Where's the proof? I never see anything that is actual proof with these posts about Yandex.
At best what I see is it's a cluster of search crawlers that went slightly down.
lastlybutfirstly 10 points 6 hours ago
We're seeing a mass placebo effect in real time.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 2 hours ago
I'll sell you some placebo for three moneys
im_fine_sandy 8 points 3 hours ago
I had wondered why /c/mop@quokk.au is suddenly dead.
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I'd love to see some site traffic charts during each of the strikes, it would be interesting to see how much of the internets more inflammatory sites are being propped up by IRA bots.
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