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I have yet to see credible evidence that any kind of social media activity went down in the last 2-3 days. To me this seems like journalists and politicians capitalising on what people want to hear.

Lemmy.world was just down. Nvm

There could be multiple reasons for this.

1. The bots are used only for generating engagement and not posting. So engagements went down, posts didn’t.
2. The bots are used on Twitter and not on Reddit so twitter was impacted but reddit wasn’t. Kinda likely considering twitter loves bots and reddit has been cracking down on them.
3. Engagement is not a very transparent metric, and depends on a lot of factors like when content is posted, the quality of the content, seasknality, etc. There can be multiple things affecting engagement.

Because it’s a quick search and not a dedicated query, I guess the historical data collection is stopping at 56 days instead of going all the way to 60. Same thing happens when I look at any other sub.

It’s not mentions of r/conservative, it’s mentions (posts and comments) in the subreddit.

In the US they are just called content creators and tiktokers.

You know what, I have been working in Social listening (analysis of social media) for the last 8 or so years and since morning I have been seeing this claim about Russian data centers and activity on r/Conservative, and it has been smelling of propaganda and annoying me all day.

It’s almost 1 am in the morning and I just realised I have the tools to prove or disprove this. So I got up and in 5 minutes I was able get the data.

Americans are really getting real good at propaganda for sure.

Good people can make bad art and bad people can make good art.

We make peace with this now.

Born too late to witness the greatness of Sergei Bondarchuk, born too early to witness truly democratic artistic expression. Born just in time to witness Avengers Assemble™ episode 17 The Return of WonderIronThanos.

Did you know at least 6 Marvel movies have worked closely with American military?

Sure a random thread on reddit or lemmy is the real propaganda.

Edit : Unless of course it’s the make believe parliament game on /pol/.

Edit 2: It’s really getting hard to keep track of what’s propaganda and what’s not these days.

He’s getting downvoted because he’s right.

That’s Dune for you.

There is nuance to Ukraine Russia war too. Yes Russia is the obvious aggressor, and strengthened secession movements in eastern Ukraine through propaganda, but there were always some ethnically Russian people living there who felt they belong more with Russia.

They, along with the help of Russia were leading some kind of separatist movement and Ukraine bombed their own citizens to quel this issue. It’s hard to tell amidst all the propaganda on both sides, but there is definitely nuance here. Also not to mention Ukraine flirting with NATO membership was apparently a red line for Putin.