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[–] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 15 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted.

Russian web crawlers went down, propaganda bots did not. At best the propaganda bots depended on the crawlers to find new content to comment on, but afaik there's not much data indicating that the social media botnets went down.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Probably downvoted because they tried to disguise their statement as a question that they didn't want answering.
Which I personally feel is just a way to diminish OP's credibility but not look like they are trying to argue.

They could've shaped their comment in any number of positive ways, such as posting links of it being disproven. Or asking for such links and proof.
However they went with an elaborate "NUH UH, parrot, lol" instead.