r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 9h ago

PoliticalTea šŸ—³ļø What an amazing coincidence...

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u/Dull_Investigator358 9h ago

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u/DJ_Flym_Flazzle 9h ago

So easily manipulated they are.

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u/ruiner8850 8h ago

My aunt believes every single conspiracy theory against Democrats that she sees on the internet. She's also a huge bigot as well. Sadly she refuses to acknowledge her own grandchild as being transgender and refuses to call him a him or his preferred name.

Here's a few of my "favorite" conspiracies of hers. One is that Abdul El-Sayed's parents were picked by a terrorist cell specifically because they knew that if they had a child that that child would one day grow up to be a candidate for US Senate to destroy the US from within. She didn't explain how they knew a child of those particular people would be able to have a child with such an impressive resume that they could become a Senator.

Another one is that she believes the 2024 flooding in North Carolina had nothing to do with Hurricane Helen and it was really the Biden administration forcing Duke Energy to release all the water out of all their dams at once to purposely cause flooding. According to her it's impossible for it to flood in mountainous areas naturally. She didn't explain the rationale for why she thinks Biden would want to flood out North Carolina.

Another one is that she believes that there are kitty litters in every school bathroom (at least in Maryland where she lives) for the "furries" to use. When I asked her if she had seen the kitty litters she said no. When I asked if anyone she knew, including her grandchildren who go to school, had seen them she also said no. None of that mattered because she was 100% convinced that all schools had a large population of "furries" using kitty litters every day.

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u/Damiklos 7h ago

It's a sickness I tell ya

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u/JstytheMonk 5h ago

Sadly, its just a bucket in the corner that teachers have in case there's an active shooter situation, and some kid needs to pee despite having to be locked in the room for everyone's safety.

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u/cynicalicoffee 5h ago

That, and they do have kitty litter stocked all over the place in schools because it's incredible at soaking up any fluids a kid might spill or expel.

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u/issuefree 8h ago

Look at you so smart, wait till we find out there's a Norwegian bot farm manipulating us into wanting minorities to have rights and that taxes should be used for education and healthcare. What then lib?

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u/Ok_sooner_duh_almond 8h ago

Wtf

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u/Weary_Beach_9911 7h ago

it's called a joke champ :)

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u/techdevjp 7h ago

it's called a joke champ :)

Ray taught me not to make those sorts of comments.

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u/Ok_sooner_duh_almond 7h ago

Iā€™m relieved

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u/xteve 7h ago

Jokes are typically funny.

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u/Creamer_Dreamer 7h ago

I thought it was funny

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u/xteve 6h ago

Sarcasm is amusing, occasionally, or if done skillfully. But it's not a joke, and in text form it lacks the power of delivery unless wielded by a skilled practitioner, which most of us are not.

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u/Creamer_Dreamer 6h ago

You're not very funny, are you?

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u/xteve 6h ago

I've been insulted on the internet since before you shit yourself. Is that all you've got? Say something funny.

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u/Icy_Illustrator_7731 6h ago

My entire life has been lived in Sarcasm City, in the state of Sarcasm. Trust me, sarcasm done well enough that the receiver misunderstands that it is sarcasm, is the greatest joy of sarcasm for the sarcastic. In that way, your comment was the bestus of complementus.

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u/generalstinkybutt 5h ago

Do you actually know what the metrics are to 'measure' traffic is up or down, due to X, Y or Z? Did you do the deep dive.... or

you are just as bad as what you ridicule?

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u/NaturalDon 4h ago

ironic

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u/merc534 7h ago

the irony of this comment is palpable.

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u/Many-Salt-4321 5h ago

What do you mean?? Line go down clearly! It must be true! /s

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u/Dazzling_Morning2642 7h ago

Says the guy with no actual data this happened

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u/afunkysongaday 4h ago

Funny you say that, because this story is made up. So easily manipulated you are...

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u/PreviousCurrentThing 8h ago

Yep, they see a meme with an unsourced graph making a claim, but it confirms their biases so they just believe it. Sad, really.

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u/issuefree 8h ago

It's a coping mechanism. We want to believe that they're manipulated, not that they're hateful bigots.

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u/merc534 7h ago

Actually, what you want to believe is that we are Russian bots and not Americans because it allows you to simply wave away anything we say as russian propaganda.

Also, distrusting Fauci has nothing to do with 'bigotry'.

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u/BZLuck 5h ago

No we don't believe everyone is a Russian bot. Just that when you do go on an conspiracy rampage, and get a ton of likes and "Amen!" and "Exactly!" comments that boost the visibility and confirm your biases, those are the Russian bots. They are doing the heavy lifting. Otherwise your comments would just fall into the void of obscurity.

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u/NaturalDon 6h ago

a 3 day graph lol

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u/[deleted] 8h ago

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u/xteve 7h ago

Yes. And don't forget the preacher. It's Fox et al, Russia, and church.

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u/thatguydr 5h ago

This post

  • isn't backed by data
  • used a GenAI bot to make a picture for people to upvote

It's... a moment for reflection. As a scientist, I would love if the statements made by the OP were true. But we need data, and I haven't seen any.

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u/Space-Monkey-17 4h ago

My thoughts also.

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u/OldSchoolBubba 9h ago

Of course. Much of Trump's on line "base" are Putin's bots trying to keep him propped up.

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u/Crazy_Adhesiveness84 9h ago

Especially the one who can read and write.

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick 8h ago

Didnā€™t that Million Moms thing turn out to be six moms, four childless women, and a creepy guy with a Bonneville?

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u/issuefree 8h ago

Talk about an aspirational name!

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u/bendstraw 5h ago

Is there any actual data showing this? Would love to send this to my friend who is convinced Fauci is the antichrist

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u/Late-Arrival-8669 9h ago

The world is breathing better.

More of a reason to support Ukraine!

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u/CowNervous4644 9h ago

It seems that it was pretty easy for security experts to spot the Russian bot traffic. It really makes you wonder why the Nazis running X didn't spot it and stop it themselves.

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u/dsmith422 9h ago

Why would the people at Twitter stop it? Musk, Trump, Putin, Thiel, Xi, etc are all part of the same oligarch project to take all power and wealth from the people and hoard it for themselves.

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u/Creamer_Dreamer 7h ago

It really makes you wonder huh

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u/voodoodahl 8h ago

It shouldn't make you wonder at all.Ā 

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u/issuefree 8h ago

Probably the same reason they turned off the location thing when revealed all the foreign maga influencers.

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u/Typical-Lion-4428 6h ago

It still amuses me that Muskrat was stupid enough to think that stunt would embarrass the left.

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u/FancyJesse 5h ago

Dumbass sipping his own koolaid and forgetting what he put in it.

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u/BZLuck 5h ago

IIRC correctly they did spot it. For a moment in time X showed the posters location and a huge amount of them straight up didn't correlate at all with the vitriol that was being spewed. They were posting American politics but were nearly all in places like Thailand, Nigeria, Bangladesh.

One account called ā€œMAGA NATION,ā€ which had nearly 400,000 followers and posts multiple times a day, was based in Eastern Europe.

They disabled that feature as quickly as they enabled it. Oopsy!

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u/notJustaFart 9h ago

No, there's no wondering about it.

People that are too stupid and under-educated love the simple honey-pots like anti-vax rhetoric while having zero concern about a child's health when it comes to predatory sexual abuse.

To them, one is God's chosen path while the other is an abomination of humanity except their choices differ from the rational ones.

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u/oscarink 9h ago

Huh almost like they're manufacturing outrage?

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 9h ago

And a certain orange turd also saw his support drop.Ā Ā 

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u/External_Music_3927 9h ago

Want Trumpā€™s approval rating in the single digits.

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 7h ago

To match his IQ?Ā Ā 

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u/Stephen_085 8h ago

I want to believe, but how much of this is fact and how much is 'hopeium'? Because of its real, I'd like to find a way to fund some more missiles to target these centers.

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u/TheGamecock 7h ago edited 7h ago

I saw the full tweet with the chart posted elsewhere this morning and felt like only displaying the mentions of "Fauci" with the start date being the day of the data center bombings, without showing data from previous days, was a poor way to make a definitive point. I'll just repost my comment from that thread:

I wish all of these charts that people are posting would show a bit of the timeline before the data centers went down as well. Like, was "Fauci" also mentioned ~40k times per day in the days/weeks/months leading up to the data center attacks? It'd be helpful to add in that extra context. If there was some reason for Fauci to be in the news around October 8th, it'd make sense for his name to be mentioned more around that date specifically. I personally don't know WHY he would be "trending" as I haven't heard anything about Fauci since those hearings a few months back when MAGA was upset about him pleading the fifth. And it'd been well over a year since I recalled hearing anything about him before that. I'm just irked by the way this data is being shown.

Edit: Out of curiosity, I googled "Fauci" -- went to "news" -- sorted by date.. Apparently he popped up on some popular "news sites" 4-5 days ago (so essentially around the same time of those Russian data center attacks) concerning something to do with his "diary". There's around a dozen or so separate news links from those dates, but fewer in the days that followed. So a trend that pretty cleanly follows this chart.

I'm not saying that there's absolutely no correlation but, from my understanding, simple but effective social media misinformation bot farms can feasibly be run out of some random dude's basement by jury-rigging a few dozen old smartphones together. I'd be curious as to what extent those massive advanced Russian data centers were mostly used for. Social media bots? It's a realistic possibility, but it seems like there could also be far more nefarious things to utilize those types of data systems for outside of simply trying to sway MAGA idiots on Twitter by mentioning "Fauci" a few thousand times.

I don't want people to assume I'm trying to frame this as "there's no way that there is any correlation between those Russian data centers being destroyed and a drop in right-wing MAGA bot activity." But I just don't think that's necessarily what's happening with this example. I'm also not a fan of disingenuous information being peddled and suspiciously framed datasets being displayed as a "gotcha" just because it fits a certain narrative. Because there's not much difference between that and misinformation bots. This chart basically just shows an uptick in "Fauci" mentions on Twitter because he was moderately in the news cycle that day and, as the news cycle continued to churn with more topical stories over the following days, his Twitter mention trends decreased accordingly.

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u/Mighty_K 5h ago

This whole thing is hopium.

Not a single claim is backed by data sadly.

The only thing that we down is search bot traffic from that one site. Even overall Russian bot traffic is pretty much unchanged.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru

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u/FrostyD7 5h ago

The main thing people seem to be hoping for out of this story is irrefutable proof that Russia is meddling in our elections and favoring Trump in that pursuit. But we already have it.

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u/throwaway490215 4h ago

What people are hoping for is that their fellow citizens are better people than they might currently believe. I mean, we also already have statistical proof of that, how social media screws a with your perception, but it'd be nice if it was all Russian bots and everybody else was blameless. Scapegoats are very cathartic.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Seat950 9h ago

Hmmmmm i wonder(ominous hand on chin)

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u/Acrobatic-Run7888 9h ago

Funny My Redit is now no longer full of Bs posts

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u/PreviousCurrentThing 8h ago

Then how'd you find this one?

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u/theblueshots 9h ago edited 7h ago

The funny thing is, everyone with a brain already knew much of the rightwing presence online was fake, but the bots were programmed to respond. ā€œRussia, Russia, Russia.ā€

At least we can now dispense with that bullshit.

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u/EStewart57 9h ago

We must thank President Zelensky for the quiet time.

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u/Defiant_Freedom_249 9h ago

Most people can't hold grudges this many years later for a dude who tried to stop the spread of a disease, only programmed machines and MAGA outliers.

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u/issuefree 8h ago

Don't the right wing news outlets bring him up from time to time to stoke the flames? Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

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u/Original-Rush139 7h ago

I mean, Republicans in congress are trying to put him in prison.Ā 

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u/JustaSeedGuy 7h ago

Yes, that's what he said. Maga outliers

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u/dataprof 8h ago

It doesn't make me wonder. It confirms my dark suspicions.

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u/SteviaCannonball9117 7h ago

Came here to say the same thing.

It's not us -vs- them so much as it's disinformation splitting all of us up.

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u/CosmoKing2 7h ago

Makes you wonder what US billionaires plan to do with all those data centers they are building here.

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u/Ra_In 8h ago

I'm curious what the breakdown in the drop in mentions is between bots going offline and people who would have shared/reinforced the bot's message.

There's of course interest in understanding how much of the right-wing discourse was manufactured, but it would be interesting to know if there's much of a corresponding drop in engagement from the people the bots are targeting.

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u/BitterLemonTv 7h ago

There has been a massive fall off of hasan dog shock meme in on the livestreamfail reddit, normally any post qith him would have a bunch

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u/yep975 7h ago

And GENOCIDE

And FREE PALESTINE

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u/kn3cht 6h ago

Where is the source? This is just some image.

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u/LiftingCode 6h ago

This is just some image.

I suspect that may be the point!

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 5h ago

Looks like someone doing some lighthearted trolling with Excel to me.

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u/Discount_Extra 5h ago

I saw a post on IMGUR of the devastation of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, and expected a dozen comparisons to Gaza blaming US democrats... but there were none. Then I learned of the data center being attacked.

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u/GeneralFrequent6031 5h ago

Correlation isn't causation. A graph showing fewer mentions doesn't tell us why they dropped. You'd need a lot more data before drawing that conclusion.

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u/Allthemuffinswow 8h ago

And right now would be the absolute perfect time to get as much real, factual evidence based information and knowledge out there to the masses as possible, so that they can actually start learning the truth for once, without the constant interference of the bots.

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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick 8h ago

You mean Twitter?

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u/isopropyl-elmer 8h ago

Turns out the guy just dedicating his life to trying to save the world might not be such an asshole.

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u/HumphryGocart 8h ago

WWIII is turning out to be pure 90ā€™s futurism.

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u/SpareIntroduction721 8h ago

Was this not exposed when tweeter added the location of the accounts?

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u/TacticalArrogance 8h ago

I wish all of these charts that people are posting would show a bit of the timeline before the data centers went down as well. Like, was "Fauci" also mentioned ~40k times per day in the days/weeks/months leading up to the data center attacks? It'd be helpful to add in that extra context. If there was some reason for Fauci to be in the news around October 8th, it'd make sense for his name to be mentioned more around that date specifically. I personally don't know WHY he would be "trending" as I haven't heard anything about Fauci since those hearings a few months back when MAGA was upset about him pleading the fifth. And it'd been well over a year since I recalled hearing anything about him before that. I'm just irked by the way this data is being shown.

Edit: Out of curiosity, I googled "Fauci" -- went to "news" -- [sorted by date.](https://www.google.com/search?q=fauci&tbm=nws&tbs=sbd:1). Apparently he popped up on some popular news sites 4-5 days ago (so essentially around the same time of those Russian data center attacks) concerning something to do with his "diary". There's around a dozen or so separate news links from those dates, but fewer in the days that followed. So a trend that pretty cleanly follows this chart.

I'm not saying that there's absolutely no correlation but, from my understanding, simple but effective social media misinformation bot farms can feasibly be run out of some random dude's basement by jury-rigging a few dozen old smartphones together. I'd be curious as to what extent those massive advanced Russian data centers were mostly used for. Social media bots? It's a realistic possibility, but it seems like there could be far more nefarious things to utilize those types of data systems for outside of simply trying to sway MAGA idiots on Twitter by mentioning "Fauci" a few thousand times.

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u/Ambriguous 8h ago

The treatment of this man in recent times in the lofty chambers of gov't, is disgraceful. His life's work has been to find solutions to complex medial problems and his country's elites treat him like a leper. If it's true that the traffic is diminished as a result of a hit, then long may the mainframes stay under the rubble.

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u/USDXBS 8h ago

We got a new boss at Antifa HQ, so we never say the old ones name anymore

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u/Beautiful-Company-12 8h ago

They all
Must have died , suddenly

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u/ChaosRainbow23 7h ago

Makes sense.

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u/One_Parsley_2013 7h ago

Doens't make me wonder

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u/YoureProbablyAB0t 7h ago

I wasn't wondering.

They took a career professional who served the public and lied. They invented B's so that they could protect child rapists.

Fauci deserves so much better than what they did.

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u/Bearsbullsbattlestr 7h ago

It doesnā€™t make me wonder.

Those effected by this donā€™t wonder about anything at all to begin with.

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u/its_the_smell 7h ago

MAGA are a bunch of gullible dipshits.

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u/Away-Concentrate-946 7h ago

Agent Orange might have an issue?

What a bummer.

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u/dcamom66 7h ago

The naysayers on here can write this off all they want. The drop in bs on Facebook is substantial. I can actually read the comments on my local news station without all the ridiculous right wing garbage.

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u/Hierophant_Pius 7h ago

Or, and just hear me out on this one, it spiked recently because he was in front of congressā€¦here, let me snapshot 3 daysā€¦just ignore months, years of data.

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u/whenisnowthen 7h ago

Who will lead the MAGA without the Russian bots? Where will they get their ideas? How will they be funny and interesting by quoting the things that the Russian bots say? What will they be angry about without these important distractions?

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u/i_r_winrar 7h ago

No it hasn't, a quick google trend check shows this is completely false.

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u/IDrankLavaLamps 7h ago

What is fauci?

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u/Due-Mycologist-1154 7h ago

The mental image of the magas seeing all their online only friends getting thanos snapped out of existance has me dying laughing

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u/SAINTnumberFIVE 7h ago

Where does one get these stats?

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u/redreditreditordblue 7h ago

The chart OP shows looks 1) incredible inauthentic and 2) not "of a cliff". And proof this is true or is it just propaganda?

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u/Bdbru13 6h ago

2 month old account

4.5M karma

ā€œLess botsā€

https://giphy.com/gifs/bjB3gtFvREqqr5NAHW

Same with every account Iā€™ve seen posting these types of posts over the last few days

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u/digitrad 6h ago

Strange Biden had to pre-emptily pardon him for crimes he allegedly never committed, huh?

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u/millos15 6h ago

are you saying maga are gullible? yep checks out

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u/davecatlow 6h ago

Perhaps because itā€™s bullshit?

However, independent digital forensics and platforms tracking state-backed influence have discredited the narrative that these events are linked: ā€¢ Natural Trend Cycle: Public tracking data demonstrates that mentions of ā€œFauciā€ peaked briefly around October 8th, due to localized news coverage regarding his personal diaries. The subsequent decline on the chart represents a standard social media interest drop-off following a minor news cycle. ā€¢ No Impact on Bot Networks: Cybersecurity analysts and tracking organizations like dTeam (which evaluates Moscow-linked cyber operations) investigated social media traffic following the data center strikes. They confirmed to BBC Verify that there was no noticeable drop or statistical deviation in active Russian bot clusters or known coordinated troll networks across platforms during this timeframe. ā€¢ Misattributed Quote: The graphic attributes the text to ā€œDr. Neil Stone, Infectuous Disease Doctorā€ (misspelling infectious). While a post mirroring this sentiment was shared by a personal profile under that name on X, it was framed purely as speculative text. It does not originate from a verified media investigation or a publication from an authoritative body.

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u/ergonomicdeskchair46 6h ago

Does anyone have a link to a site that lets you see the data? Iā€™d be curious to try other words

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u/Betruul 6h ago

To the russian people, common citizen, my heart goes out to you, it sucka that your internet gonna be terrible.Ā 

To the ukranians.... hit another one.

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u/IGargleGarlic 6h ago

Ive been seeing a lot of posts saying that the claims are "unscientific" or "misinformation" and I'm pretty sure its the remainder of the bots doing damage control

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u/digitaluranium 6h ago

I wonder why they didn't show the days before the attack on the graph...

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u/ZiggyZiggyZigZags 6h ago

Is that why I havenā€™t seen anything about the Panama Papers?

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u/PowerResponsibility 6h ago

Israel vs Palestine, too. I'm by no means an Israel supporter but I'm also well aware of how Russia exploits Palestine's cause to sew division and demoralize liberals to stop them from voting to support Democrats.Ā 

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u/NoBonus6969 6h ago

The ones left saying his name are Chinese bots.

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u/Mountain_Town5759 6h ago

It doesn't make me wonder at all.. it's influence from Russia to divide the population and a certain administration encourages it. The USA has been infiltrated... Duh.

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u/mattjf22 5h ago

Makes you wonder is Russia influencing the Republicans in congress because they've been all over this guy or are Republicans dictating to Russia who and what to target? Either way Republicans are compromised.

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u/TrollsWhenBored 5h ago

Aight dude, don't be a dumbass thinking it's only Republicans. The Russian troll farm sows dissent on both size to maximize chaos.

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u/RunDNA 5h ago

All these posts are so stupid. It's just cherrypicking (or something similar).

Mentions of everyone goes up and down each day. So you can pick twenty relevant names, look up all twenty stats, and two or three of them will have drops just by random fluctuation.

Then you post a graph "Mentions of Person 7 drop dramatically after Russian data center hit!" and reap all the upvotes and likes.

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u/marco89nish 5h ago

Source?Ā 

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u/WokeyMcWoke88 5h ago

Pure blood never followed the sheep šŸ¤£

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u/Aggravating_Row_6962 4h ago

Yah but what about those built in China, Canada and the US?

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u/Sad-Map6779 4h ago

I heard that general MAGA hate attacks on Democratic candidates fell by as much as 70%.
Can the connection between Republicans and the Russians be any clearer?

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u/MauriceM7 4h ago

hmmm..

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u/CookieRelevant 9h ago

It turns out that this too was a misinformation campaign.

Guess Dr. Stone fell for it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko

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u/FeRooster808 7h ago

Not exactly. It's just complicated.Ā 

" The " Muted Network " effect is essentially the digital equivalent of dropping a cityā€™s water pressure. Even if the main water towers (the state-sponsored elite troll farms) are untouched, a sudden drop in pressure means thousands of minor pipes, automated fountains, and local taps stop flowing entirely. Ā  When applied to the Yandex data center strikes, this phenomenon breaks down into three layers of background noise that suddenly vanished from the internet over the past week." " While Russia's elite military and state intelligence groups hide their operations on private networks, thousands of low-level, commercial bot operatorsĀ  use standard public clouds like Yandex Cloud.Ā  Because Yandex Cloud lost massive availability zones, these commercial, gray-market bot farms lost their hosting and proxy connections. Throttling these "rent-a-bots" noticeably thinned out the chaotic, repetitive spam that usually floods politically sensitive threads".

"Influence campaigns are cyclical: before a troll farm posts a narrative, a swarm of automated data-harvesting tools must read social media feeds to see what topics are trending.

Many Russian-language analytics companies, marketing firms, and narrative-monitoring teams run their heavy data aggregation on Yandex infrastructure."

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u/CookieRelevant 6h ago

Complicated by the fact that causation must be proven rather than simply seeing correlation and leaping to a conclusion like Dr. Stone did. Scientific processes take more time than what was taken.

So yes, he fell for it.

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u/Original-Rush139 7h ago

That article doesnā€™t address mentions of fauchi on twitter.Ā 

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u/CookieRelevant 6h ago

The article is simply showing the sourse of the disinformation campaign. Dr Stone arrived at his conclusion without proving causation only correlation. As Hichen's Razor states "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."

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u/Ghost6x 8h ago

Until dTeam posts an actual report that can be peer reviewed by other teams, that BBC article has NO merit because all of their "evidence" hinges on their statement as the only qualified opinion.

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u/CookieRelevant 6h ago

Are you familiar with Hitchen's Razor?

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u/srz1971 8h ago

Iā€™d say you were the one who fell for it. READ the article, read between the disinformation, draw your OWN conclusions from the data AND what/how it was stated. Could beā€¦is pure speculation. Just because ā€œit was on the BBC websiteā€ donā€™t go far nowadays. It holds as much water these days as it being reported by Fox. Mainstream media is all manufactured versions of events, not reality but the one they want you to believe.

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u/Working_Yogurt_3916 8h ago

Believe you me I wanted it to be true. A simple google search will produce several reputable sources.

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u/br4nfl4k3s 7h ago

Itā€™s not disinformation itā€™s misunderstanding. Bit traffic did drop out of Russia. Just not the not traffic that is from social media bots. News agencies and online bliggers donā€™t understand the difference and report what they read.

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u/CookieRelevant 8h ago

Another case where it is easier to fool someone than to convince them that they've been fooled. Oh well, you do you.

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u/ridden_easy 5h ago

are you saying fauci did a good job and wasn't complicit in creating a killer virus while also lying? ill enjoy it if you plead the 5th and also have a blanket pardon

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u/Affectionate-Exit-31 5h ago

Yes, yes, no. That was easy. Life is so easy when you believe in facts and aren't s*cking Trump's c*ck ...

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u/shitlips696969 8h ago

Yes but your media is correct. Ahh yes makes sense.

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u/srz1971 7h ago

Hello, nice to have you back online, Russian BOT. /S

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u/Apprehensive_Sun6282 9h ago

I havenā€™t found a credible domestic source reporting on this.

Sounds like itā€™s made up

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u/Leading-Zombie1373 9h ago

Found the russian bot! You missed one Zelensky!

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u/Ordinary_Cow206 7h ago edited 7h ago

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=US&q=Fauci&hl=en-US

Edit: Google Trends measures search interest, not posting activity on X, so my original conclusion was incorrect.
Iā€™m leaving the comment up for transparency. Itā€™s okay to make mistakes. Acknowledging them, learning from them, and correcting them is how we get better. Pretending they never happened doesnā€™t make you better, just better at hiding them.
Apparently, thatā€™s a distinction some people struggle with.

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u/Apprehensive_Sun6282 9h ago

Because I canā€™t find a domestic news source for this claim?

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u/hankeliot 9h ago

This seems like misinformation.

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u/PoursTea-ModTeam 4h ago

Off topic. Banned.

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u/Famous_Ad_7215 9h ago

There is no verified data or formal tracking indicating a measurable, direct drop in mentions of "Fauci" on X specifically tied to the Yandex data center strikes, as the observed drops applied broadly to automated crawler/search traffic rather than specific political keywords or targeted social media user handles.

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u/bros-cooked 9h ago

As usual a picture with a caption and the echo chamber circlejerk takes it at face value

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u/deaglebingo 8h ago

i'm sure most ppl understand this... but remember they had congressional hearings and held this heroic champion motherfucker in contempt as a result of this stuff. what does that tell you about covid? keep in mind they project everything that was their fault in advance to avoid culpability while you think about it. what did they project about the e-class too?

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u/chephin 7h ago

What about Epstein?

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u/Zaxxon_Klaxon 7h ago

No change. Trump is still hiding the files.

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

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u/Conflatulations12 6h ago

What's with the weird way to spell infectious?

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u/WoopsShePeterPants 9h ago

Sigh.... How much disinformation is this?

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u/Ordinary_Cow206 7h ago edited 7h ago

You can go to google trends and see this is not true

Be better peopleā€¦

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=US&q=Fauci&hl=en-US

Edit: Google Trends measures search interest, not posting activity on X, so my original conclusion was incorrect.
Iā€™m leaving the comment up for transparency. Itā€™s okay to make mistakes. Acknowledging them, learning from them, and correcting them is how we get better. Pretending they never happened doesnā€™t make you better, just better at hiding them.
Apparently, thatā€™s a distinction some people struggle

Edit 2: This is what I was getting at with my original comment. Independent researchers havenā€™t observed a significant decline in Russian bot activity following the strikes. Turns out there was better evidence available than what I initially provided.
BBC Verify: https://bbclatestnews.pages.dev/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko

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u/According_Register55 7h ago

What does the link you sent show?

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u/Ordinary_Cow206 7h ago

Nothing pertinent, lol. I misread what the data represented and jumped to a conclusion. Google search interest isnā€™t a reliable measure of posting activity on X. Iā€™ve been trying to find actual data showing a measurable decline in misinformation bot activity, but so far thereā€™s very little concrete evidence supporting that claim.

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u/According_Register55 7h ago

ā€œBe better peopleā€¦ā€

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u/Ordinary_Cow206 7h ago

Yes, Iā€™m actually trying to verify these claims rather than blindly accepting them. I made an error, acknowledged it, and corrected myself. Thatā€™s how fact-checking should work. I wish more people here would make the same effort. So yes, be better.

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u/According_Register55 7h ago

But your comment is still up

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u/Ordinary_Cow206 7h ago

Yes, because I believe in transparency. Iā€™ve publicly acknowledged the mistake and explained why the evidence was flawed. I can edit the original comment to include that correction, but I donā€™t see a reason to pretend the mistake never happened.

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u/_usenet 5h ago

This site has malware. ANDROID WONT LOAD IT

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u/system-prompt1984 9h ago

The cited source is just a name. Googling his name + Russian bot traffic pulls up a tweet were he claims -

Russian data centres hit by Ukraine and all of a sudden the number of anti vaccine bots have drastically reduced in number and activity

Must be a coincidence

No other source appears to be given.

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u/Intrepid-Neck9345 8h ago

I donā€™t know, man the jury is out there. He wouldnā€™t answer any questions and I get it. I wouldā€™ve preferred if he actually had some facts to stand upon and he did not but Iā€™ve been wrong with thousand times before so who knows but it does seem a little suspicious..

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u/RarebitLeft 7h ago

A dim bulb flickering in the staff room of Walmart.

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u/DubyaC31 7h ago

Another bot? Fauci has testified over 200 times in front of Congress. I don't blame him one bit for saying "enough is enough, go F yourself, I plead the 5th" after being dragged in front of a bunch of clowns yet again. The only reason this time made the news, and not the other 200 times, was because he refused to play along.

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u/RutherfordSaint 6h ago

Yeah I mean literally he likely was told to plead the fifth to everything because it was a witch hunt. He said even something slightly contradictory and they woulda been like OH OH OH SEE GOTCHA SEE SEE? Which is what they wanted. The 5th amendment is there to not incriminate yourself... which also encompases mis-speaking and mistakenly not being consistent.

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u/digitrad 6h ago

He also had to be pre-emptily pardoned. Not a good look for an ā€˜innocentā€™ man.

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u/cokeiscool 6h ago

Dude really....

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u/digitrad 6h ago

Really dude. Fauci funded bioweapon research which lead to the Covid destruction. The guy should be on tv with that other guy who shot up the military base.

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u/ObviouslyRealPerson 9h ago edited 8h ago

Doesn't seem accurate given what Ukrainians are saying

Edit: Ooook

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u/Master-T-bone 9h ago

Just cause the farm was in Russia does not mean they were pulling the strings

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u/Xhojn 8h ago

That does make it the most likely scenario, though. And even if it isn't, some 3rd party is still botting MAGA opinion.

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u/Master-T-bone 5h ago

Perhaps MAGA?

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u/Swimming-Boss-1437 8h ago

Ok but who is running this operation? That's 2 posts in one day where u/veshaad hit the front page. Seems organic doesn't it

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u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire 8h ago

Yeah, I post on things I agree with, and a lot of others here do as well. Are you trying to insinuate something?

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