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shimman • yesterday at 10:48 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Yeah weird thing to purport that feels extremely misleading. Suppose one way to find out is to look at accounts that were suspected of high bot activity and see if they got the same amount of engagement as the weeks before the strikes.

I don't really trust Cloudflare to be a good steward when discussing this since they have a sordid history in protecting hate.


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gruez • today at 12:16 AM

>Yeah weird thing to purport that feels extremely misleading. Suppose one way to find out is to look at accounts that were suspected of high bot activity and see if they got the same amount of engagement as the weeks before the strikes.

But nobody did that. All we have is a bunch of people on twitter/reddit passing around the same pixelated screenshot from cloudflare, using it to claim that russian bots have been stopped in their tracks.

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ipaddr • today at 1:03 AM

They also have a virtuous history protecting love.

That's like saying Google protects hate because people who hate you use Google.

When you are colorblind you end up helping everyone even people that hate you.