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Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it
www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/ukraine-drone-strike-yandex-russian-bot-farm-right-wing-maga-afd-reform-uk-conspiracy-theory-viral-rumor/Replying to @purrtastic@lemmy.nz
I don’t know. I work at a cyber security company and the traffic to our site dropped by 58% overnight.
Replying to @jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
We were shown a graph and given a story, people are really gullible. It’s a shame to see a big win completely misunderstood by laypeople.