I would stop discussing the AfD-related chart until someone comes up with a source and methodology behind it. Also consider this thread: bsky.app/profile/raph...
That doesn't mean they are affected either.

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That doesn't mean they are affected either.
Happens every time, for both sides of the aisle:
On a related note:
I would stop discussing the AfD-related chart until someone comes up with a source and methodology behind it. Also consider this thread: bsky.app/profile/raph...
> hate speech and anti-Western propaganda volume is down Can you provide credible evidence for this claim?
There's no link source, no methodology explained. What can we discuss here?
I can't see anything here. Do you have a link to a source?
Whether has or has not, the chart everyone shares has nothing to do with that debate.
CREDITS: Most of these points were earlier posted on Reddit by someone else: www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...
4️⃣ Yandex is a search engine (among many other things). Which, by design, has crawlers (automatic robots) that browse web sites to index the Internet—which is how it later searches the web on your behalf. Which crawler activity is (very likely) exactly what CloudFare detects as (ro)bot traffic.
3️⃣ as you can see in Russia-totals chart, volume of bot traffic this week (as measured by CloudFare) is largely the same as any other week.
2️⃣ the original chart is specifically about Yandex-controlled network, not about Russia-originating traffic overall
1️⃣ the CloudFare chart has nothing to do with social media.
CloudFare measures automated requests to web sites (of any kind, among which social media share is negligible)
www.cloudflare.com/learning/bot...
To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart
( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ):
Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️
Full thread and link to the story:
bsky.app/profile/fted...
In which we helped @joemillerjr.ft.com with an example of AI-manupulated videos used by a foreign adversary to potentially influence US midterm elections.
3️⃣ Expanding student protests will ignite massive social strikes, plunging France into a total economic collapse and civil war that will rapidly spread as a contagion across Europe.
2️⃣ High school protests, strikes, and decaying education infrastructure are framed as a direct consequence of sanctions against Russia and aid to Ukraine.
1️⃣ "Experts agree that" Macron must prioritize the interests of French citizens over the demands of "authoritarian regimes such as Ukraine".
🧵 Tracking bots matters because covert ops reveal what official propaganda hides. As seen Oct 9, Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka network is pleading with Macron to lift sanctions against Russia before his term ends. To build pressure, it is pushing the 3 key claims below ⤵️