The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

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[–] 29 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Right before the midterms in America.

This is gonna be bad for MAGA

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Is anyone really on the fence anymore?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Oh god, so many are on the fence still in Idiot America.

    https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-approval-record-low-hispanic-voters-sour-on-republicans-reutersipsos-poll-2026-10-05/

    The poll gave numerous signs that Trump's low popularity was weighing heavily on his Republican Party, with registered voters preferring Democrats over Republicans by 44% to ​37% less than a month before the November 3 election. Among independents, Democrats led 37% to 21%, with 28% ​of independent registered voters still undecided.

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  • American conservatives would elect to get cancer if it had an (R) next to its name. That is, so long as they can fuel up the massive trucks they use to stand in for their tiny cocks, but Trump fucked up diesel pricing.

    I'm guessing 15% are starting to wonder.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 days ago

    This is a one two punch, not only does it hurt Russia's interests, it may cost the GOP in the upcoming election. Nice way to respond to Trump buying Russian Diesel.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    By "Yandex bot" and "Russian bot" what do they mean?

    Do we mean "bot", like a social media account that pretends to be an authentic human user, but is actually a "bot", or some other version of something inauthentic? Or do we mean the crawlers that Yandex sends out to crawl websites to refresh its search index?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots

    Bot traffic describes any non-human Internet traffic...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Ok, so that's a pretty inoffensive form of bot. It's not the bots pretending to be real people, which is what I think of when I hear "Russian Bot".

    It's presumably also better behaved than the crawlers used by the AI companies. Those just refresh indices, but they're way more aggressive than the ones typically used by search companies, and often don't respect the robots.txt file.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    RIP search engine that still gives good piracy results.

    You'll be missed.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    If only you read the article you'd realize the "bot network" they're talking about is indexing websites so the Yandex search engine and related services can find them. The article literally gloats how "this will make the Internet slow or unusable for Russians".

    But of course they knew what they were doing with the headline. Targeting Euro-Americans who think the reason their politicians are corrupt is secret Russian (or Chinese) influence and dissenting opinions on the internet are Russian bots.

    Or I might just be one of the 10% of the bots that are still coming through!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago* (3 children)

    effects on pubic opinion

    Unfortunately Russian Z-patriots are much much more hypnotized even than US MAGAs.

    They need intensive deprogramming and reintroduction into civil society. Temporarily cutting off just one source of propaganda helps a little, but does not put the cancer into remission.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    If religion's history as a whole is considered, they're more than likely to simply glom onto the next big lie that puts them in the in-crowd. 🧏🏼‍♂️

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  • [–] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

    This is in ukraine’s best iterest.

    Russian (and Chinese among others) bots drive political unrest, primarily by supporting right wing and nationalist provocateurs to destabilize governments that support Ukraine or NATO.

    If Zelensky can silence the trolls, he has a better chance at continued support.

    Disregard. It’s Yandex bots, not troll farm bots.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 days ago

    And yet i am still here

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago