r/CriticalThinkingIndia • u/PrimedGold • 1d ago

Science, Tech & Medicine Following Ukraine’s attack on Yandex’s data centers, Russian bot activity across American platforms appears to have declined significantly. A Swedish engineer rans tests by posting pro-H-1B visa content and observed no anti-Indian hate in response.

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u/Beginning_Net5713 1d ago

Most of these hate is on western platforms tho? How did anti-bot mechanics fail here?

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u/Altruistic_Bank_1552 Congressi 1d ago edited 1d ago

You're overestimating Western competence and the greed of these American tech bros.

Musk has time and again supported Russia and bashed Ukraine, asking Ukraine to give in to Russia. Is it any surprise that he has allowed Russian bots to have a free hand on X after his takeover?

The Far-Right in the West is also heavily compromised and in cahoots with Russia because they share similar racist and homophobic views and want to build civilisational ties with Russia.

The US has also regularly blocked the EU's attempts to regulate American social media platforms in their countries.

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u/PrimedGold 1d ago

Not quite. You can look at IG and Reddit as well. None of these are owned by Musk.

Its just standard Russian pattern. Another thing, from what I am reading now, is a lot of bots portray to be right leaning conservatives. That doesn’t mean all conservatives are bots.

They tend to comment and prop up human right leaning influencers on Indian hate, which they then feed on to boost engagement.

Also EU does regulate a lot, but they can’t simply block bot activity because platforms themselves seem to have a hard time doing it.

That also doesn’t mean Russian bots wont do the same on an EU owned and regulated platform.

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u/fenrir245 21h ago

Bots aren't the only way Russia exerts influence. Tim Pool, a very popular conservative influencer, was literally caught getting funded by Russia to push his rhetoric.