Replying to @⁨return2ozma@lemmy.world⁩

If even the US’ Cold War anti-communist propaganda station ‘Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’ states the drop is likely due to Yandex’s crawlers, what does that tell you about the credibility of Zelenskyy (having an obvious conflict of interest) and all Western outlets running with it, by extension? The Russian government might not even need bot farms at this stage, because the West keeps undermining their own credibility: with single-sided, unsubstantiated malinformation of half-truths at best. It’s so obvious to me they’re trying to pass off any critical thinker as being a Russian troll, and trying to escalate the proxy-war by attributing “hybrid-war” sabotages to the “aggressor” (that is conveniently in a weakened state because of it). Yes, Russia undeniably invaded Ukraine, but wouldn’t the US do the same to Mexico if it turned communist, following all of South-America?

Replying to @⁨PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml⁩

My argument? Here it is: sopuli.xyz/post/53077260

Plus, everyone notices that whenever a post is about Ukraine, a flock of .ml’s always shows up to pedal kremlin disinfo talking points.

If that’s not you, move along, but if you’re going to defend that behavior by acting like it doesn’t happen, then that identifies your motive here pretty clearly.

Replying to @⁨wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz⁩

I’m not really arguing Russia isn’t facilitating bot-traffic (nor here on Lemmy, regardless of instance), but I simply don’t agree with the framing of most articles on it. The claims are barely substantiated, or conflated with Cloudflare’s general traffic drop (including that of crawlers). Well that, and somewhat of a collation of not immediately related frustrations I have on the overall subject at the end… :)

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