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Ukraine's Zelenskyy Claims Strikes on Russian Data Centers Silenced Social Media Bots (gizmodo.com)
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[–] Cytobit@piefed.social 56 points 15 hours ago (14 children)

Blowing up data centers will not stop troll farms. Troll traffic is not coming from Yandex.

Some of the claims appear to conflate data centers with Russian “troll farms” such as the Internet Research Agency (IRA), which became well-known following a 2015 expose. The IRA operated out of a St. Petersburg office building, not a datacenter operated by Yandex. Nor does there appear to be any particular reason the IRA would require an inordinate amount of network resources.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Blowing up data centers will not stop troll farms

I didn't think that is their goal. I thought their goal was to get Russia to leave their country.

[–] DBT@feddit.online 8 points 9 hours ago

Yea, but troll farms influence US elections, and US elections play a role in the war in Ukraine.

An example of this would be Trump deciding to buy diesel from Russia, which helps Russia fund their war against Ukraine.

So stopping troll farms can help work towards the goal of getting Russia to leave their country.

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