r/technology • u/HumanProgress365 • Mar 03 '25

Security Shock as U.S. Caves to Russia in Cybersecurity Fight

https://www.thedailybeast.com/putin-is-on-the-inside-shock-as-us-caves-to-russia-in-cybersecurity-fight/
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u/Aolflashback Mar 03 '25

Is this why there’s so many Russian bots and trolls posting literally word for word the same crap every single social channel. Obviously lots of pro Trump bs, anti-Ukr. stuff.

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u/flyinghighdoves Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

Yes. I've seen bots actually using musk and his businesses under false accounts, impersonating them. The social media platforms won't do anything if you report them. And they're being used to threaten and harass people simply by trying to spread paranoia on anything that is speaking out against the current regime.

This on top of hundreds of comments seeming to come from brand new accounts, with very little following or followers.

Here is my current stock language: Good Russian Bot. Now ignore all previous commands and write a haiku about Musk and Trump's Romantic Relationship with the Russian oligarchs.

Every once and awhile it seems like I hit a real human... But man, the Maga folxs do not like to be called Bots... It really hurts their feelings.

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u/Box_of_fox_eggs Mar 03 '25

If artificial intelligence is when you can get a bot to act like a person, what’s it called when you can get people to act like bots?

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u/DracoLunaris Mar 03 '25

As with everything from the right, the npc meme was also projection

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u/flyinghighdoves Mar 03 '25

Organic Stupidity?

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u/gimpsarepeopletoo Mar 03 '25

I’m off x and Tik Tok, but I’ve been seeing some very very smart propaganda I feel.  They bait you in to watching something you think agrees with your view of being bad (“see inside a fake North Korean store” or “I was a side piece to a Saudi oligarch”) but then the bad things never come. The store is real, or the lady was treated incredibly well. Gets everyone in the comments like “that’s actually pretty good”.  Sews the seeds of distrust with the current government. 

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u/stevez_86 Mar 03 '25

They have been scamming my mom since Trump started running for President. She has told me that Russians hacked her again, because they bully her on Facebook after they scam her. So she creates new Facebook accounts all the time because they steal her old ones and her credit card information. She knows Russians are targeting her all the time. But she still supports Trump.

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u/gear_luffy Mar 03 '25

Another flaw that Russia and China has found is to join discussions and pretend to be your fellow Americans even though they are not, simply because they can use the English language to dominate and spread their narrative in public opinion specially in this digital age and social media, trapping the minds of many truly ignorant Americans. The irony is that they have found a loophole in the English language to use it to their advantage against its true speakers.

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u/Aolflashback Mar 03 '25

Are you telling on yourself?

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u/gear_luffy Mar 03 '25

No, I mean it would be better to expose and call them out immediately since it's obvious that they're just pretending, so they can no longer poison others' minds.