MASSIVE ANTI-RUSSIAN ‘BOT ARMY’ EXPOSED BY AUSTRALIAN RESEARCHERS - Declassified Australia
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An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake ‘bot’ accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war.
  • vitaminka
    124·
    2 years ago

    i’ve personally noticed that ppl on reddit have become a lot more racist overall in the past few months, esp visible bc i have a flair indicating that i’m from russia lol, idk if that’s directly related or not, just something i have observed

    most toxic thread i’ve probably ever encountered was that was where the foreign policy chief said “europe is a garden, the rest of the world is a jungle, jungle can attack the garden”, like holy shit, i browse 4chan from time to time and it now seems like a less racist place 😬

    • GiorgioPerlascaOP
      84·
      2 years ago

      I noticed that too. They quarantined /r/russia, changed the moderators of /r/moscow and did nothing about posts calling to kill Russians.

    • vekku@sopuli.xyz
      14·
      2 years ago

      Are they being racist in the same way that people in Allied countries were racist against germans during 1939-1945?

      • vitaminka
        1·
        2 years ago

        no, i’d say these two are different

        one is hatred based on largely superficial traits that one can’t control, the other is hatred based on very deliberate actions

        • vekku@sopuli.xyz
          14·
          2 years ago

          Sorry, I’m not following. Which one is which?

          edit Ok, that was obviously sarcasm, but I’m sure a lot of distrust towards your people right now is due to what your government has done instead of what you are.