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- politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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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You know what, I have been working in Social listening (analysis of social media) for the last 8 or so years and since morning I have been seeing this claim about Russian data centers and activity on r/Conservative, and it has been smelling of propaganda and annoying me all day.
It’s almost 1 am in the morning and I just realised I have the tools to prove or disprove this. So I got up and in 5 minutes I was able get the data.
Americans are really getting real good at propaganda for sure.
That must be why they’re all targeting the Gears E Day servers. You know, because the game where you chainsaw people in half is woke now. Imagine if grindr went down. They’d be out of all friends.
It seems that outside r/asktrumpsupporters, most of the subreddits that tanked were either location-based or extremely general. the post also has a link to the code tho which I didn’t run (I’m on mobile).
I skimmed this article, but I don’t see one mention of r/conservative, or frankly, any subreddit in general. I’ll give it a closer read in an hour if I can (at the gym, got an assignment to do later) but I’m not confident this addresses the specific claim the post is making.
From some of these comments, it looks like 2/3 of this community has lost its sense of humor.
(This is also a joke. Bring on the downvotes!)
Nyet comrade, we have exactly as much humor as our dear leader has ordered us to have.
The Putin/monkey hybrid looks a lot like King Charles.
I scared of words I press down button
MAGA’s trending new drink for Christmas?
Borscht broth & Vodka.
That’s what shchi said.
Image looks like a bunch of RMC cadets from Canada, a different type of brain-dead boot-licker.
Between them and Queens poli sci kids, Kingston is full of winners
The Hip were about the only good thing to come out of that town.
And allegedly the same thing happened when Russia’s Internet backbones were severed at the beginning of the war… allegedly
Fascinating if true. I wanna see the carnage from hitting others
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
It’s pretty fucking annoying how pervasive this as of yet completely unverified story is.
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?
Are we really believing those douchebags?
No, “we” are not.
Why are you asking for facts? You’re on the internet here buddy, that’s not going to score you any points.
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 take some placebo right now.
I really liked their song off the Cruel Intentions soundtrack
A friend in need is a friend indeed. A friend with weed is better.
I’ll sell you some placebo for three moneys
Three whole money? In this economy?
Still, to have your own placebo!
I had wondered why /c/mop@quokk.au is suddenly dead.
Is this actually true? If so that’s seriously scary.
It’s pretty simple, everyone I argue with online is actually a Russian LLM.
That is a strawman of course, what is not a strawman is that a lot of the online discourse just mirrors Russian propaganda lines, especially once you go to AfD or FPÖ forums. It is almost 1to1 the RT narrative. Maybe just by accident and not related to evidence of Russia sponsoring and running right populist anti EU media platforms in Europe.
Russotroll factories have been public knowledge for years. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43621355-putinin-trollit was released in 2019.
Translated version e.g. here https://www.amazon.com/Putins-Trolls-Frontlines-Russias-Information/dp/1632461293
In the US they are just called content creators and tiktokers.
No, it’s a made up number. Lib disinfo.
I don’t like the Russian, I also don’t like disinfo and therefore I have to agree with you. Jokes are fine but some of the stuff that is being posted is written as if it were true. Russian disnformation is real but it does not necessarily rely on domestic Yandex server. I have not seen any evidence yet for impact on foreign psyops operations. The only credible information I have seen was on the reduction in Yandex search bots, which is the obvious reaction to the loss of server capacity.
I’d love to see some site traffic charts during each of the strikes, it would be interesting to see how much of the internets more inflammatory sites are being propped up by IRA bots.
I wanna see the lemmy.ml numbers
Based on what I have seen and the people I have engaged with on ML I think most of them on here are just completely brainwashed by Chinese and Russian propaganda. But I’m sure there are bots or Russian trolls as well.
IRA?
its russia primary troll farms, internet research angecy.
Ireland Republican Army, those mfers won’t quit until everyone celebrate St Patrick’s Day.
Or this is a typo.
Fun fact: in the UK, you can’t legally say the IRA are the good guys for opposing British colonialism, because they’re “terrorists”, but you can join the Orange Order, whom hold a celebration every year celebrating the time they burnt down a house with 3 children inside.
Not a typo, just a shared acronym.
Internet Research Agency or Glavset. They are Russias primary troll farm
Weird their acronym is in english. I have no doubt it exists, but the layer of propagandization it passed through that we’re using an acronym made up by english speakers feels distasteful.
I had a middle school teacher who would be intentionally deceptive, using terms nobody used to make things sound scary and painting half pictures about cigarettes, drugs, sex, whatever. Even though the overall viewpoint “smoking bad” was correct, the constant obvious bending of the truth did not help her cause.
Their actual name is written in Cyrillic, which you can’t type with a standard QWERTY keyboard. So yeah, English speakers just use the acronym for the translated IRA instead.
Also most English speakers can’t read Cyrillic, even myself. I can read Runes and sound out the Hellenic alphabet but once ya get to shit like Cyrillic and Georgian I’m lost.
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Most subtle .ml propagandist.
A shockingly large amount of countries use English abbreviations officially
When you include second and third languages, it’s the most spoken language in the world. It’s not that surprising.
Okay? I just didn’t feel like typing the full name out.
Presumably the actual name is something in Russian and “internet research agency” was invented by a journalist to sound scarier than whatever the Russians call it.
Агентство интернет-исследований sounds (looks) scarier IMO.
Yes, any evidence would be better than these fake numbers.
Stand at attention. Salute. Top Kek.
2/3s??? Wow, I was expecting a big number but not a sizeable majority
Made up number without an ounce of truth posted.
Now they are the silent majority lol gottem
Rekt 😎
the yandex datacenter strikes from ukraine, caused bot traffic from russia on some social media platforms to drop to zero or close to it. most if it was stoking division in conservative communities.
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This guy probably
