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Russia’s use of social media to influence western thought and sow discord is pretty well documented (even in their geopolitical texts).

Eg https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328006677_Weaponizi...

This is an easy topic to find empirical analysis.

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No, I know. That doesn't necessarily mean these Yandex data centers being hit affected that yesterday and today, though. For a variety of different possible reasons.

right, so far we have yandex search crawler went offline

yet to see any evidence of anything else going down

Here's basically the most anti-Russia account on Twitter agreeing with you and me: https://x.com/P_Kallioniemi/status/2109542508682248478

Seems to likely just be a standard socially constructed folk belief

All I can say is that vile comments usually there on certain pages dealing with the war in Ukraine have almost all disappeared under some of the FB feeds I read.

Excuse the grammar.

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