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/SignoreBanana 4h ago

Is there someone out there who measures this stuff? because I keep seeing this but literally no "evidence" of it. And if someone is measuring it and we know who the bots are, why can't we just block them?

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u/studio_bob 3h ago

It's literally just claims made by Ukraine. Afaik, the traffic that was measurably affected is webscraping bots for Yandex search, not "disinformation bots."

Basically, this claim itself is disinformation, and it getting spammed everywhere is, not a little ironically, a psy-op.

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u/Left_Palpitation4236 3h ago

Let them enjoy their placebo, maybe they’ll stop calling everyone with different opinions bots

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u/YoungBockRKO 3h ago

That won’t happen, ever.

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u/studio_bob 3h ago

Haha, one can hope, but of course we can look forward to many exchanges like "russian bot" "I thought all russian bots were destroyed in Yandex bombing?" "did that bother you, bot?" etc, etc