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  • Irisiris_meredith@mastodon.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 4:32 AM

    RE: toots.matapacos.dog/@porkroll/

    Russia *very much* engages in bot farming and hybrid warfare, and I don't like how much the "we have no evidence that the recent datacenter strikes have led to a decrease in bot traffic" is turning into "Russian hybrid warfare has no effect or isn't a thing", which is transparently and obviously stupid.

    Two things can be true.

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  • C.S.Strowbridgecsstrowbridge@mastodon.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 5:42 AM

    @iris_meredith

    It's not even that we have NO evidence.

    The scrapers are tracked 24-hours a day, so we immediately see their decline in real time. That's evidence you can't ignore.

    On the other hand, we are seeing some places have a drop in engagement with some Pro-MAGA content, but that's a lot harder to track. There is some evidence, but it is muckier.

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  • N0tSureN0tSure@mastodon.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 10:59 AM

    @iris_meredith True. And the same applies, with slightly different parameters, to all capitalistic systems, including Russia and China etc.

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