The Russian Bot Apocalypse
Patrick Boyle takes a look at the political strife online and how it's related to bot networks and how it isn't.
I know there's no political videos in this community but this isn't really political itself, just an analysis on ragebait and others using politics.
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It felt kinda silly that the Yandex search index scrapers stopped working and people confused those with the social media bots at first, but in hindsight when people are presented with numbers of falling russian bot traffic it's an easy mistake to make for someone who is not that tech savvy.