Is It True? Has Twitter Changed Since The Sanctions? Have Trolls Been Silenced and/or Exposed?

[Beetwasher.]

What are you seeing on the wild world of the WWW?

Are the Russian bots finally silenced? - Updated w Guardian article

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/1/2083265/-Are-the-Russian-bots-finally-silenced

Have the Russian Trolls been outed?

Australian online anti-vaccine groups switch to Putin praise and Ukraine conspiracies

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/02/australias-anti-vaccine-groups-switch-focus-to-putin-praise-and-ukraine-conspiracies?fbclid=IwAR12RjTgU9UNgflPTKs3SXqIWZG5h-a7zUBW_mAXdi_0er1bY7M_GQIb900

[Nevilledog]

1. Seeing less Russian disinfo, Covid deniers, QAnon, and freedom convoy stuff.

Obviously this is just based on my feed.


I'm sure it's just a *coincidence* banning Russian bots is related to this.

[Johonny]

5. It does feel cleaner

[Hugin]

7. As you're my only window into the twitterverse...

I'll take your word for it.

[Nevilledog]

9. There's still a lot of crap.

[Hugin]

11. It is early in the sanctions...

Based on the Air Force Rule, 3% haven't gotten the word they're not getting paid yet.

The other crap... Well, isn't that the appeal of social media?

[Nevilledog]

12. There are a lot of dumb & mean fuckers in the world.

[underpants]

2. I've seen comments about this on twitter

Unscientific for sure but people (with a lot more followers than me) are claiming they see a great deal less trolls.

[Hugin]

8. Maybe, just maybe...

We can look at Yahoo again.

[underpants]

10. Is it a rightwing mess?

I don’t tend to go into discussion groups

[Hugin]

13. Yeah, I hate discussion groups.

Yahoo is the worst. Almost as bad as hometown or whatever it was called. That one was hilarious, especially when someone got arrested and everybody talked smack about them.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Now we know how much of the GOP crap was Russian troll material.

[crickets]

6. 👆👆 Yes. nt

[Beetwasher.]

14. Yup

[Mike Nelson]

4. They multiply...

... they get banned - but more arrive, on Twitter, Facebook and their cousins. I like the "calling out" replies. Sometimes a Russian fake gets an English idiom laughably wrong and it's obvious the poster is not from Poughkeepsie.