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

[u/ArgentineBeauty]

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

[u/skinmiach]

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

[u/Fenxis → u/skinmiach]

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.

[u/PsychologicalHold754 → u/Fenxis]

See, the funny thing about "Russian bots" is, that the only time I am confronted with them is when other people (who spam everything like bots with ZERO arguments) tell me, that I should only listen to them, because everyone else is an evil Russian bot.

So quite the absurd bot army, that has zero effect and reach.

When it comes to people being directly called bots, that's pretty much always who come with facts. And since certain people can't go against the facts, they just go ad hominem.

That's what "Bot" mainly is used for.

"Don't believe that person, they are an evil witch - I mean, an evil bot."

You people are absolutely hopeless.

[u/Fenxis → u/PsychologicalHold754]

And yet completely by coincidence traffic on r/Conservative and Alberta seppie subreddits are way down right now??

[u/ThoughtfullyReckless → u/PsychologicalHold754]

How do you know any given comment you see online isn't a bot?

[u/i_am_a_laptop → u/ThoughtfullyReckless]

i am a laptop, i know my kind.