r/PoursTea • u/Herefortheteaa_x • 1d ago

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u/CookieRelevant 1d ago

It turns out this was just a misinformation campaign. Sadly it looks like a lot of people fell for it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko

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u/astirac 1d ago

The fact that this is getting downvoted actually proves that the bot population still works fine.

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u/KnowledgeWhole9623 1d ago

Was just wondering this today.

Unfortunately with every piece of news now I must ask myself three questions:

Who does this benefit/hurt if it’s true?
Who does this benefit/hurt if it’s misinformation?
Which one is more likely?

I was leaning towards misinformation because it seems like something pretty difficult to verify but would spread quickly given the political timing.

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u/UffTaTa123 1d ago

well, donb't fall for the next misinformation. Believe your own eyes, you can see the lower numbers of troll posts in r4eddit and all over social media. No matter how many of the remaining trolls now try to pretend there is nothing to see.
https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-engagement-shrivels-destruction-russian-bot-farm

https://www.reddit.com/r/InterstellarKinetics/comments/1x52w8o/exclusive_elon_musks_x_engagement_plummets_after/

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u/Desperate_Border6904 18h ago

The only proof there is a few posts of his getting only 5k likes - but he has multiple posts in early October also with fewer than 5k likes? 

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u/redslipperydip 1d ago

I wish there was more information available on this. The BBC Verify article you linked says they were shown information by dTeam proving that misinformation bots were still active, but they don't show that information and I can't seem to find any other information on dTeam outside of the BBC.

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u/Desperate_Border6904 17h ago

Presumably the data isn't public so the bots don't get replaced. Like not tipping off a criminal the police knows about

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u/redslipperydip 14h ago

That makes sense. After commenting I also found the Mother Jones article about it and they had a lot more sources. I just was thrown by BBC Verify being like "trust me bro".

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u/UffTaTa123 1d ago

No, it's not.

https://futurism.com/future-society/elon-musk-engagement-shrivels-destruction-russian-bot-farm

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u/CookieRelevant 1d ago

So you've offered correlation not causation. Well you did your best right?

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u/UffTaTa123 1d ago

Yeah and you came up with numbers without any meaning to counter numbers without any meaning. Who cares about automated hhtp-requests graph from cloudfare? That's not the game.

I really trust my own eyes. And i see the impact that it has here in reddit.

That's enough proof for me that it has the impact.

Literally the first time ever that i could read a COVID-Thread WITHOUT ANY covidiot. That never had happen, till now :-)

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u/CookieRelevant 1d ago

Well if you understood how the burden of proof worked you wouldn't be doing what you're doing, oh well though right. You do you, GL!

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u/howdareyou87 18h ago

AHAHAAHH! So you have no source at all? It's your personal impression? Redditors are really delusional

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u/Xenomorph_1978 1d ago

Absolutely right. Legacy media cannot be trusted.they are so easily bought and sold. They think were dumb.

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u/Sarabeth68 1d ago

This came from the article you referenced

An analysis by Cloudflare showed that traffic from Yandex had dropped by 99 percent last week following the strikes. Not all of the traffic was “necessarily bot behaviour on social media platforms,” the company clarified, pointing out that its figures included all automated internet requests, such as search engine crawlers or monitoring tools.

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u/Diclonius666 1d ago

no that article is apart of the misinformation campaign and YOU fell for it.

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u/CookieRelevant 1d ago

Well I'll certainly weigh the evidence you've provided, oh wait, you didn't.

Notice BTW how many that had been making the claims have now taken it back. Even Zelenskys office have walked it back.

You do you though, believe what you want. It's not like you arrived at this position based on evidence.