r/SipsTea • u/Previous_Month_555 • 4h ago

Feels good man Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple Russian data centers.

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u/SnooDonuts3749 4h ago

Where's the proof that these data centers were the source of misinformation on the internet?

This post could literally be misinformation to have people put their guard down.

This whole this could just be made up.

Today the sky was yellow where I live.

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u/Desperate_Damage4632 4h ago

r/conservative posts dropped to a crawl after the data center went down.  That's certainly something.

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u/Starcat75 4h ago

I heard the separatist bots got quiet in Alberta subs too

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u/SignoreBanana 4h ago

Is there a chart somewhere showing this? I'd love definitively proof

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u/ArchieTheKatt 3h ago

You can just search new on the sub and see an 8 hour gap with nothing posted in a sub of 700 thousand.

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u/Allegiance86 4h ago

That sub is always a ghost town unless something big happens. Even conservatives avoid it day to day.

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u/water-tr4sh 4h ago

This is wildly untrue

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u/Allegiance86 4h ago

Its absolutely is true. The vast majority of posts are made by the same handful of people. Most of those posts get a handful of comments at best. It comes no where near TheDonald in activity.

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u/MaximusMansteel 2h ago

Must be hard when like 95% of news posts go against your bent worldview. Don't want to pop the bubble. Its hard to cherry pick when everything is going so disastrously wrong.

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u/SlowlyDrown 4h ago

It is, there are like 3 mods and nothing can get posted without them approving it.

I mean I believe there was probably a reduction but there’s already hardcore seasonality in post volumes there because it’s not a public subreddit.

Every post must be approved by mods.

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u/FatBussyFemboys 4h ago

The amount of jumping to conclusions by the "smart side" is troubling..

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u/Krypt0night 3h ago

👍

Maybe go focus on the actual troubling shit from the other side then. 

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u/jaunesolo81829 4h ago

None. They struck the Russian equivalent of google search engine. Thats it.

Pic from cloudflare which shows the bots weren’t even affected.

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u/SignoreBanana 4h ago

Is this your company's traffic? Someone linked a story that showed this. It's also from cloudflare

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u/FabianN 4h ago

Your graph is that from a single company.

OP is making the claim about all of Russia, which is the graph of the comment you replied to.

Here's the link so you can see yourself 

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7d

Let me know where on that graph you see bot traffic reduced. 

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u/SignoreBanana 4h ago

Thank you for the link! This is the kind of real information I've been looking for

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u/FabianN 3h ago

You are welcome.

There is a ton of misinformation around this whole incident, and I think we need to remember that these propaganda campaigns operate by impersonating people on both sides, the right and the left.

I suspect most are just blindly repeating what they read without a second thought, but we are all targets of these networks. 

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u/Equacrafter 4h ago

No wonder yandex is down for the past few days. Cant even reverse image search for peace. Fk you unkraine

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u/Hungry_Wheel_1774 4h ago

Did a test. It's working perfectly for me.

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u/ArchieTheKatt 4h ago

Look a bot made it through

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u/Resident_Pientist_1 4h ago

Lol GG bombing yandex cry more

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u/vinyl0rd 4h ago

Haha. It's literally just someone saying something and then everyone believing it without any sources.

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u/Leumas_ 4h ago

My man, check yourself. I say that respectfully. Let the facts play out, there’s a chance this might be huge.

If, and all of this hangs on this if, but if Russian bot centers are being destroyed, it stands to reason that they are managed precisely as well as everything else in Russia, meaning they spent all their effort on flash and bang while the infrastructure is a crudely painted mess of carboard and duct tape.

Something, anything of positive consequence has to break sooner or later. It might not be this, but it would be cool if it was.

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u/PretendAirport 3h ago

I remain optimistic. I saw a post where someone said Yes, the bots still exist, and some still have some functionality (liking, reposting, posting memes on a schedule) but lost the LLM ability to comment and chat. Hence the collapse in traffic I at least (yes, anecdote) see on the boards.

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u/Sufficient_Water4161 4h ago

here is one link, there are many more though.

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u/Shoeshiner_boy 4h ago

>However, the figures also include legitimate automated traffic, such as search-engine crawlers, and do not establish whether Kremlin-linked social media bots were affected.

As per your link.

Yeah, right…

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u/Educational_Bend_941 4h ago

The people who blackmailed our pedophile president into the Iran war and are the top campaign contributors to democratic leadership love having their social media outlets tell everyone how Russia interferes with our country

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u/4TheQueen 4h ago

Just ask GPT for any verifiable method to establish this fact and then ask for reporting on the methods. I did, found many claims but no proof. Cloudflare is the one who logs traffic and they couldn’t tie it to political bots. It’s almost impossible to prove.

You know the adage “it takes way more effort to debunk bullshit than make it up”? Well it’s not much more effort now, AI synthesizes quite well. Til it’s all bot traffic / dead internet

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u/vincehk 3h ago

"AI synthesizes quite well", if you feed it yourself, yes. I've done a week of experimenting last month to show my company management that it was not a reliable source of information. I've kept asking GPT, Gemini and Copilot (what we mostly use at work) answers for data and information I knew for a fact what they were, and for over 50% of the time it was just made up. Even showing electronic diagrams and asking about circuitry, it would just invent things that are not on the presented images.

AI is a great assisting tool, but only complete morons trust it and are amazed by it