posted in Technology
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/
tl;dr the “bots” were web crawlers, not social media accounts. And there’s no evidence that disinformation campaigns saw any change at all.
Replying to @artyom@piefed.social
Why did Musk cut Ukraine off from star link over web crawlers?
Did he? Seems unlikely.
Replying to @fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com
I think he cut them off because Donny wanted it over Ukraine not wanting to be in on his super cool “deal”.
Replying to @aksdb@lemmy.world
Timing is sus