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/ididntseeitcoming 18h ago

That’s a very shallow explanation of what happened.

The MASSIVE decline in anti vax, pro Russian propaganda, and other various misinformation posts/comments is what should be troubling.

A large amount of absolute garbage on the internet is being fed to the entire western world by Russian bot farms. And we are eating it up like hot cakes.

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u/reroll-life 1h ago

A large amount of absolute garbage on the internet is being fed to the entire western world by Russian bot farms

We knew this for decades. There are legit interviews with people working in propaganda farms, we have photos and analytics and proof etc. People just don't believe it for some reason.

I think russian technique of firehose of faleshoods is just so powerful. it's hard to attribute propaganda when it's not blatant "putin is great" but million variations of "everything is bad". It's low key evil genius.