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purrtastic@purrtastic@lemmy.nz
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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/
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artyom@artyom@piefed.social
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tl;dr the “bots” were web crawlers, not social media accounts. And there’s no evidence that disinformation campaigns saw any change at all.

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NathanRanch@NathanRanch@lemmy.zip
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We were shown a graph and given a story, you’ve internalized it and spread it to others. I don’t that narrative because the evidence doesn’t play it out.

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artyom@artyom@piefed.social
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I haven’t done anything except explain the words in the article.

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NathanRanch@NathanRanch@lemmy.zip
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futurism.com/…/elon-musk-engagement-shrivels-dest…

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artyom@artyom@piefed.social
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That’s not evidence, that’s just another article

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fyzzlefry@fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com
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And then Musk cut Ukraine off from Starlink

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