r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 19h 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/PrizeSyntax 19h ago

Bots need data centers to run, data centers stopped working, bots stopped working. What's so complicated about that?

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u/JMurdock77 19h ago

It’s uncomfortable for some to recognize how much their worldview was being fed to them wholesale by an adversary.

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u/Classic-Bird-4526 18h ago

When RT was available in U.S., it was full of Russian propaganda. Certain nations account for the majority of world propaganda, including both Russia and the U.S.

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u/Journeyman42 18h ago

A day or two after the 2016 election, I had to go get gas for my car. The gas pump started playing an ad for Russia Today and I'm like wtf is this shit?!