298
Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers? (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 days ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
53 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 20 points 2 days ago (6 children)

If the goal is to gut down on fake posts, it'd be a lot more helpful if Ukraine were to drone a few troll farms. It might alos have a positive effect on the US November elections.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    Why would we assume a troll farm is even a physical thing you can bomb? I imagine 99% of those are work-from-home jobs that people just log into.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    They really should.

    But there are a lot of trollfarms now. And the US is running the majority of the ones that operate in the US you can be sure. With these chatbots, it's about to make the internet much more dead than it is already.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    ‘Meddling with the US elections, eh?’ An imaginable question of the (bought and promoted by Russia) US president to Ukraine.

    I really like the irony of it. If Ukraine wants to affect the elections in their favour, they should target the bot farms indeed.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago

    Unfortunately the Russian plan has already convinced a majority of republicans of their talking points. So now a decent proportion of the “bots” are human parrots who now largely believe their own bullshit. Or at least believe they need to troll to win for their side. Taking out the bots is nice, but a decade too late.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent