Tomshardware doesn’t show twitter account changes it talks about cloudflare traffic and expert opinions but thelondoneconimoc has a better article on the effects on e.g. Reform’s twitter.
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Here’s a quote from my above source
Take Richard Tice for example. Below are three posts on X from the Reform deputy leader to his almost 400,000 followers on Monday, 11 October. At the time of writing, none of the posts had hit triple figures for reposts or comments, with one not even reaching 10,000 views.
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Before the Ukrainian strikes on the Russia data centres, Tice’s posts got considerably more engagement, consistently hitting triple figures for comments and reposts, whilst racking up hundreds of thousands of views.
From how it was explained to me by colleagues that work with this stuff for us is that those data centers were links in a chain of vpns that many bot swarms used and when they went down their ip addresses were reveled and on many platforms that resulted in automated bans and THAT is the subjective experience of the bots being silenced
That’s not how any of that should normally work. And I doubt it that your colleagues have insight into Russian operations unless you’re either in the NSA or in the FSB.
To be clear four days later there is still zero evidence this is true.
Evidence: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-figures-see-social-media-engagement-drop-after-strikes-on-russia-data-centres-410517/
Why not link to the source? https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers
Tomshardware doesn’t show twitter account changes it talks about cloudflare traffic and expert opinions but thelondoneconimoc has a better article on the effects on e.g. Reform’s twitter.
Edit:
Here’s a quote from my above source
typo : “thelondoneconimoc”
(( thanks for many nice and well documented comments ))
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko
Lol.
Cherry picking individuals with low engagement is not a serious analysis.
Yea, but also: https://www.mimikama.org/yandex-angriffe-afd-bots-aktivitaet-grafik-faktencheck/
From how it was explained to me by colleagues that work with this stuff for us is that those data centers were links in a chain of vpns that many bot swarms used and when they went down their ip addresses were reveled and on many platforms that resulted in automated bans and THAT is the subjective experience of the bots being silenced
There is also zero evidence for this
That’s not how any of that should normally work. And I doubt it that your colleagues have insight into Russian operations unless you’re either in the NSA or in the FSB.
https://reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1x3q43a/offsite_comparing_reddit_activity_around_three/
This garbage analysis got deleted for a reason.
People downvoting this inconvenient truth the same ones who accuse others of being propagandists.
As though somone blaming Ukraine for “refusing to negotiate peace” has any room to speak on “inconvenient truths”.
An .ml defending Russia …
Seems like they didn’t blow up the correct data center to silence you.
Sorry, your bot is in another data center.
Everyone here is a russian bot execpt for you, Привет от Сталина.
How is that, in any way, defending Russia?