Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic” chart many people have cited is really about automated web crawlers operated by Yandex accessing the web. It’s not connected to “bots” posting on social media, and Russian bot/crawler traffic overall continues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online? [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3mxmv7t6nxc27]
  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    I want the traffic to look organic, so I want to have it come from all over the world including from inside the US itself.

    The reason to use Russian datacenters for bot army is that they are relatively cheap, and they have Russian IP. It appears like a foreign influence campaign if they are caught as bots. CIA bots probably run through Russia, ffs. There’s no connection to Russian government other than allowing bots to an establishment supporter. It’s not as though any US/western government has wanted to cooperate with Russia on any matter of concern.