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/skinmiach 13h ago

It amazes me how indifferent people are to bots in the comments, given how much comments matter. Seriously, I’ve been talking about this problem for so long, but all I hear is “just ignore it, dudes are just sharing their opinions.” They are not DUDES. If the Western world has lost its grip so badly that it can’t recognize a threat and stand up to it... then it deserves the position history is putting it in

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u/Fenxis 11h ago

Not taking Russian bots seriously is probably the number one failure of "Western" governments.

10+ years ago I remember reading an article in Vanity Fair with one of the of the staff members of one of these sites WRT to how easy it was to influence public perception.

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u/a_boo 11h 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 8h 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 7h 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.