> Russia is a country with a lot of experience of maintaining bot networks Twitter begs to differ: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/12/twitter-fi

> Russia is a country with a lot of experience of maintaining bot networks Twitter begs to differ: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/12/twitter-files-democrats-were-warned-russian-bot-th/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/12/twitter-fil... or rather, Twitter agreed with your claim while under the previous ownership, even though internally they know that wasn't the case. Now, does the state of Russia operate significant bot networks elsewhere? Possibly. But I have so far only heard about their existing from sources fed by the US government, or allied with it, rather than independent ones. > Russia is a country don't conflate the country with the state please. > Russia... has almost unlimited budget to spread whatever misinformation they think useful for them. Surely, you jest. Russia is extremely weak in propagandizing. And its budgets for spreading its views are nothing compared to even just the US as a state, and if you count private corporations, and the effect of Europe, then the imbalance is even more severe. PS - None of this is to say that the Russian regime is admirable, peace-loving, international-law-abiding etc. (which it isn't.)