Apparently engagement on that other site’s r/conservative dropped by 2/3 when Russian data centers went down due to drone strikes.
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You know what, I have been working in Social listening (analysis of social media) for the last 8 or so years and since morning I have been seeing this claim about Russian data centers and activity on r/Conservative, and it has been smelling of propaganda and annoying me all day.
It’s almost 1 am in the morning and I just realised I have the tools to prove or disprove this. So I got up and in 5 minutes I was able get the data.
Americans are really getting real good at propaganda for sure.
That must be why they’re all targeting the Gears E Day servers. You know, because the game where you chainsaw people in half is woke now. Imagine if grindr went down. They’d be out of all friends.
It seems that outside r/asktrumpsupporters, most of the subreddits that tanked were either location-based or extremely general. the post also has a link to the code tho which I didn’t run (I’m on mobile).
I skimmed this article, but I don’t see one mention of r/conservative, or frankly, any subreddit in general. I’ll give it a closer read in an hour if I can (at the gym, got an assignment to do later) but I’m not confident this addresses the specific claim the post is making.
From some of these comments, it looks like 2/3 of this community has lost its sense of humor.
(This is also a joke. Bring on the downvotes!)
I scared of words I press down button
MAGA’s trending new drink for Christmas?
Borscht broth & Vodka.
That’s what shchi said.
Image looks like a bunch of RMC cadets from Canada, a different type of brain-dead boot-licker.
Between them and Queens poli sci kids, Kingston is full of winners
The Hip were about the only good thing to come out of that town.
And allegedly the same thing happened when Russia’s Internet backbones were severed at the beginning of the war… allegedly
Fascinating if true. I wanna see the carnage from hitting others
Where’s the proof? I never see anything that is actual proof with these posts about Yandex.
At best what I see is it’s a cluster of search crawlers that went slightly down.
The endless reposts of memes about it feel like bot behavior, more than anything else
It’s pretty fucking annoying how pervasive this as of yet completely unverified story is.
Okay I don’t feel like searching out articles for your lazy ass but:
Fact 1) Russia has been involved in cyber influencing for years. They largely do this through opinion bots.
Fact 2) Russia was severely limited on internet capabilities with recent strikes.
Fact 3) An absolute butt ton of outspoken conservatives and tankies and shit are all of a sudden “gone”.
Could be a false correlation, but even us laymen can guess R=~0.93
Yeah but I’m not seeing evidence that those bots are gone tho. I saw some graph claiming a dip in Yandex web crawlers. That’s it. And even that, the sourcing of it all comes back to one MP for the European Parliament? Like that’s the whole source? Are we really believing those douchebags?
Are we really believing those douchebags?
No, “we” are not.
Why are you asking for facts? You’re on the internet here buddy, that’s not going to score you any points.
We’re seeing a mass placebo effect in real time.
Have you seen the state of everything? I’ll take some placebo right now.
I’ll take some placebo right now.
I really liked their song off the Cruel Intentions soundtrack
A friend in need is a friend indeed. A friend with weed is better.
I’ll sell you some placebo for three moneys
Three whole money? In this economy?
Still, to have your own placebo!
Is this actually true? If so that’s seriously scary.
It’s pretty simple, everyone I argue with online is actually a Russian LLM.
That is a strawman of course, what is not a strawman is that a lot of the online discourse just mirrors Russian propaganda lines, especially once you go to AfD or FPÖ forums. It is almost 1to1 the RT narrative. Maybe just by accident and not related to evidence of Russia sponsoring and running right populist anti EU media platforms in Europe.
No, it’s a made up number. Lib disinfo.
I don’t like the Russian, I also don’t like disinfo and therefore I have to agree with you. Jokes are fine but some of the stuff that is being posted is written as if it were true. Russian disnformation is real but it does not necessarily rely on domestic Yandex server. I have not seen any evidence yet for impact on foreign psyops operations. The only credible information I have seen was on the reduction in Yandex search bots, which is the obvious reaction to the loss of server capacity.
Stand at attention. Salute. Top Kek.
*3/2
