The world saw a huge drop in right-wing engagement online after Ukraine starting striking data centers in Russia. Evidence points towards Russia being behind large bot operations to promote MAGA, the AfD, Reform, and other pro-Russian extreme parties in the West. Trump announced a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine when neither Russia or Ukraine agreed to or were informed about a ceasefire.
Like always, who is saying it is false?
The big companies that refuse to manage them because it drives engagement?
Governments using them?
“We removed all the bots and the place felt empty” is my guess as to what they would say.
There were several more or less reputable sites that made the claim that the whole bot thing was only web crawlers for search engines.
But Jake Broe shows here that that is false.