Apparently engagement on that other site's r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.
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Where's the proof? I never see anything that is actual proof with these posts about Yandex.
At best what I see is it's a cluster of search crawlers that went slightly down.
The endless reposts of memes about it feel like bot behavior, more than anything else
Yeah there for awhile there were 2 variants of the exact same meme template about this that were the top 1 and 2 posts in my "All" tab. Was kinda weird.
It's pretty fucking annoying how pervasive this as of yet completely unverified story is.
I'm not surprised. It feeds into the idea so many people like to think that everyone who disagrees with them is just a bot. But hate to be the bearer of bad news here: Trump is the President. Bots don't vote. Somebody was out there voting for that asshole, and I'm sure plenty of them own a computer.
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Why are you asking for facts? You're on the internet here buddy, that's not going to score you any points.
I was told there'd be no fact checking
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Okay I don’t feel like searching out articles for your lazy ass but:
Fact 1) Russia has been involved in cyber influencing for years. They largely do this through opinion bots.
Fact 2) Russia was severely limited on internet capabilities with recent strikes.
Fact 3) An absolute butt ton of outspoken conservatives and tankies and shit are all of a sudden “gone”.
Could be a false correlation, but even us laymen can guess R=~0.93
Yeah but I'm not seeing evidence that those bots are gone tho. I saw some graph claiming a dip in Yandex web crawlers. That's it. And even that, the sourcing of it all comes back to one MP for the European Parliament? Like that's the whole source? Are we really believing those douchebags?
No, "we" are not.
We're seeing a mass placebo effect in real time.
Have you seen the state of everything? I'll take some placebo right now.
I'll sell you some placebo for three moneys
Three whole money? In this economy?
Still, to have your own placebo!
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