r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 18h ago

Society Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent—Now Questions Are Mounting

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339
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u/Netheri 17h ago

I think we all need to take a moment of silence for the real unspoken victims of war; bot farms feeding you propaganda on social media.

Such a terrible waste, those bot farms could have gone on to manipulate elections. War is truly hell.

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u/Journeyman42 17h ago

Such a terrible waste, those bot farms could have gone on to manipulate elections. War is truly hell.

Legit, Russia could be using those data centers for something productive and economical, or for scientific research. But instead they use it for propaganda bullshit.

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart 16h ago

"These measurements show a sharp reduction in automated network activity, but cannot establish whether Russian propaganda bots disappeared or whether damaged infrastructure stopped generating ordinary automated traffic."

There is nothing that verifies this was a bot farm.

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u/orus_heretic 17h ago

They've manipulated every western election since at least 2016, that we know of. Cambridge Analytica was weirdly forgotten by people. From US, to Brexit, to EU elections.

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u/fs2d 13h ago

CA being "forgotten" about was 100% by design IMO