Ukraine Is Successfully Bombing the Heart of Russia's Disinformation Machine

mhh__

I'm seeing a lot of totally unevidenced slop that [guy I dislike]'s support has collapsed after Ukraine blew up a datacentre. In general most accusations are confessions, pay attention to people who use words like disinformation and misinformation. They want to control other people's speech.

Varelion

More of this, please. I'm tired of state actors sowing division alongside political pundits, all for the purpose of distracting from the class warfare being waged against the American people.

iteria

Even as someone who believes that the datacenter strikes reduced Russian propaganda traffic, I don't think this article does anything to support that idea. It has the known Yandex traffic drop. It has some conjecture about what might be lurking within that yandex traffic and then never gives us any evidence. It mentions the r/conservative accounts, but tells us about a day they skipped a year ago when attacks happened. And the rest is the same. Nothing ties this to the current data center attacks. This is basically just propaganda in the direction I like. I hate it. Right now I basically have to back up my gut feeling about this current event with prior incidents. This author seems content with that, but I'm not. Being content with that is a good way to be complacent and nod along to things that either aren't true or give your adversary more credit than they deserve.

nylonstrung

I see no evidence presented here or elsewhere that this attack stopped Russian "bots" rather than just search engine crawlers If the strongest "evidence" is anecdotal reports that pro-Russia posting on Reddit decreased that seems more like Redditor confirmation bias and delusion than proof of a propaganda bot farm co-located with Yandex

OCTAGRAM

I use Yandex search every day and did not notice any problem in search. So far I can only see automated e-mail fetcher stopped. So I check non-Yandex inboxes manually until they fix.