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submitted 11 months ago by Sickos@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

Lol the jig is up, we've been the victim of a limited hangout

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[-] flan@hexbear.net 97 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sure they are. Remember when Reddit found all those "russian bots" and it turned out to be like 6 accounts with a combined 200 karma?

[-] flan@hexbear.net 68 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

how about those "spy balloons" that were turned off, i dont know how anyone can take these people seriously at this point

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

it is of course entirely feasible that the data collection parts of the balloon were because it was a fucking weather balloon meant to collect weather data

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 66 points 11 months ago

https://mronline.org/2022/11/07/massive-anti-russian-bot-army-exposed-by-australian-researchers/

A team of researchers at the University of Adelaide have found that as many as 80 percent of tweets about the 2022 Russia-Ukraine invasion in its early weeks were part of a covert propaganda campaign originating from automated fake ‘bot’ accounts.

An anti-Russia propaganda campaign originating from a ‘bot army’ of fake automated Twitter accounts flooded the internet at the start of the war. The research shows of the more than 5-million tweets studied, 90.2 percent of all tweets (both bot and non-bot) came from accounts that were pro-Ukraine, with fewer than 7 percent of the accounts being classed as pro-Russian.

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