r/Foodforthought • u/No_Twist6127 • 2d ago
Ukraine knocked out three Yandex data centers and the internet decided Kremlin troll farms died with them. We checked Russia's networks: only Yandex went dark
https://substack.com/@respublicamgz/note/p-220089932?r=7domil47
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u/JoeSicko 2d ago
Kremlin troll farms are probably runnung off gas generators in Oklahoma somewhere.
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u/Phiarmage 2d ago
Nah, it's the Chinese in Oklahoma. They already captured quite a bit of the marijuana market there.
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u/Radokost 2d ago
More will follow (as they should). Also - how expensive and time consuming would be to restore that data center with current state of parts shortage and sanctions? I bet it must be tough...
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u/Bartek_Bialy 1d ago
The conclusion online: Kremlin troll farms and pro-AfD, pro-MAGA bot accounts went silent.
People who say that should be able to tell which accounts stopped posting, right? I haven't seen anyone do that.
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u/Londonsw8 1d ago
Fron the Technology sub: The conservative subreddit had an 8 hour blackout when this happened. 8 hours of no new posts so its either only Russian bots posting there or the Mods approving posts are all bots lol
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u/Bartek_Bialy 1d ago
According to Meduza the strike happened on Oct 8. I went to conservative, sorted posts by new and briefly checked post dates. I counted 38 submissions on Oct 8 (mind you, Reddit gives me dates in CEST).
Maybe I'm looking at the wrong date. When exactly the blackout happened?
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u/lordoftheslums 1d ago
There are entire reddit communities that stopped having posts immediately. Kinda sounds like millions of bots.
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u/Snuffman 2d ago
As a Canadian, I will say the Alberta separatists are suspiciously quiet.
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u/NocD 1d ago
As a Canadian, this point keeps getting repeated, but there's a certain irony repeating it here when the point of the article you didn't read was that Russian botting wasn't impacted...
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u/silentbassline 1d ago
And also it was a long weekend, even 'rats are preoccupied with stuff on weekend.
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