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Separate of whether the correlation is correct do you or anyone have info on the Telegram minitrue issue? I was unaware and don't really use Telegram.
by 616c 4y ago
Separate of whether the correlation is correct do you or anyone have info on the Telegram minitrue issue? I was unaware and don't really use Telegram.
- throwaway0x7E6 4y agothey've attempted to block it several years ago, likely due to its popularity among dissidents and/or refusal to cooperate with russian Disinformation Governance Board. they've botched it and a lot of unrelated services got blocked as well. they gave up and stopped trying.
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y agoThey went one step further after that fiasco — it's heavily used these days to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda (definitely automated — very similar messages get posted to thousands of channels pretty much simultaneously⁰). Comment sections on other channels are filled with bots (you can see them a mile away — the nicknames are generated using the same pattern, the names don't feel right if you intimately know how Russian names are supposed to look, and the message style is obvious once you get to know it). 0: https://twitter.com/sobollubov/status/1567152744812740610 https://twitter.com/sobollubov/status/1567152744812740610