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/a_boo 12h ago

Imagine how peaceful and prosperous we’d all be by now if Russia couldn’t get on the internet.

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u/GoodIdea321 9h ago

Probably every country is deploying bots online by this point, but likely fewer bots per country and maybe less destructive than the Russian bots.

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u/horizontoinfinity 8h ago

The US used bots in the Philippines to promote anti-vaccination sentiments and anti-China / anti-Sinovac (Chinese covid vaccine) propaganda during covid. Reuters has an article about it.

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u/MortalusWombatus 35m ago

Ghislaine Maxwell was running r/worldnews and you acting like only the russian bots are the problem. America is probably the biggest problem when it comes to propaganda bots