r/SipsTea • u/Previous_Month_555 • 5h 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/WakeUpFriendly 5h ago

Bombing propaganda sourcing data centers is actually an interesting war tactic. It’s a war on messaging. Interesting indeed.

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u/SomeNotTakenName 5h ago

I mean... targeting communication infrastructure is about as basic as it gets though.

That being said, I have yet to see a credible source for those centers being related to a drop in bot activity. From what I was able to find, they were mostly running web crawlers and scrapers.

I would expect all the troll farms to live on US data centres, or more likely US based cloud providers, like AWS or Azure. Why would you let everyone know you are a Russian bot, when you could hide in US infrastructure instead?

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u/Wise3315 4h ago

I haven't even looked proof of concept up yet. If they had it, they would have published. What has been shown is standard propaganda, and most likely bot propaganda. In fact , a great strategic move by Russian bot farms.

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u/SomeNotTakenName 3h ago

I had not considered the "oh noe we are no longer operational wink " angle, but it does make sense