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    some interesting data re russian botfarms on social media

    Feb 11:




    and then, after facebook shut down the russian state media accounts...


    March 2:

    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    Russia just banned Facebook.



    Right in Zuck’s joo face!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sonatine View Post
    Feb 11:




    and then, after facebook shut down the russian state media accounts...


    March 2:


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    Well played, sir

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    interesting data coming from the clutch pearls department as well.

    sonatine has dropped his post count by 98% since Trump left office, amazing data boys

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    ATINE WAS GONNA DO ONE ON CHINESE BOTS TOO BUT THAT WOULD GO AGAINST HIS TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT AND HE MAY BE DISAPPEARED IF HE DOES.

    ALSO LOL, OCCUPY DEMOCRATS RELISHES IN DISINFO.
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    occupy democrats is a fucking blight but i get why they felt compelled to start some sort of competing propaganda arm.
    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    Who the hell is still on Facebook?

     
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    This doesn't really say very much.

    Why the arbitrary date of Feb 11? Were there a lot of right-wing stories shared in general that day? I don't feel like looking up the news from that day, but it's possible there was some story which fascinated right wingers.

    And March 2 might be the reverse -- perhaps that was a day with disproportionate sharing of stories by left wingers.

    You can't just cherry-pick two days -- one before and one after the bot crackdown -- and make any conclusions. While it's true that it's been very little time since March 2, we would have to see a lot of time pass so we can compare the before-and-after stats of these pages.

    With that all said, I do believe we had (and will probably have again) a right-wing propagandist on PFA -- BiffCo99. He only shows up during Presidential elections, posts actively (with right wing views), and then vanishes after election night, regardless of the result. His IP is a residential one in the US, so he's either sitting on US soil or Teamviewing into a computer in the US. It's not a VPN or proxy, for sure. I'm very curious about him. I think there's a good chance that he's on someone's payroll to go on several sites with political content and argue on behalf of Republicans, though he could simply be working for Republican operatives rather than anything nefarious and foreign.

    I assume he will reappear in 2024. If he does, I will try to ask him to explain this odd posting pattern.

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    druff absolutely furious that hes been amplifying russian botnets for free all these years.
    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    I don't do Facebook at all. Is "The Hill" the left leaning political magazine, or something else?

    Anyways, if Sonatine's thesis is correct than Russian bot farms were blowing up The Hill and TMZ in February, which seems strange. I expect the truth is some combination of:

    1. The actual news going on those respective days.
    2. Russian trolls/disinformation being reduced recently
    3. Left wing trolls/disinformation greatly increasing recently to push left wing narratives over the war and other recent events.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dwai View Post
    interesting data coming from the clutch pearls department as well.

    sonatine has dropped his post count by 98% since Trump left office, amazing data boys

    “Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.” – Ben Shapiro

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    hmmmmm swing and a miss, team retard



     
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    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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    interesting data coming from the clutch pearls department as well.

    sonatine has dropped his post count by 98% since Trump left office, amazing data boys

    “Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people for engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality.” – Ben Shapiro
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    Russia now has no Twitter, Facebook, Disney, Pornhub, BBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, SkyNews etc.

    This is supposed to be punishment?

    Putin should be given the Nobel Peace prize for simply accomplishing this.

    (not to mention he ended Covid)

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    We live in a world where, according to the ADL, the Azov Brigade are the good guys and the Canadian truckers are evil Nazis.

    Tell me more about your freedom of speech and censorship.

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    To be fair, Druff has a good point here.

    It looks to me like there was a couple of days that were cherry picked. If you go day by day, it alternates between right wing and left wing garbage here and there.

    Now i have absolutely no doubt that there are bot farms, but this "data" is pretty inconclusive imo.

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    probably just a coincidence



    "Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky

    "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs

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