Vatnik Soup
@P_Kallioniemi
Fighting online disinformation since 2022.
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The topic of the day has been the strikes on Yandex data centers and whether they affect the Russian bot/troll army.
There have been some initial research done on this, and the most interesting finding comes from Reddit: after the strikes, many US-related subreddits lost a lot of traffic. Same happened in German and Irish subreddits.
As most of you know, Reddit is one of the most popular sources of information for LLMs, and I have zero doubt that Russians are actively trying to steer conversations across the platform to favor their narratives.
Full analysis and methodology here:
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Instead of buying potash from its former closest ally Canada, the US is now looking to buy it from Belarus, one of the world’s most oppressive dictatorships.
The United States we all knew is long gone.
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