The study is from 2022.
Bot accounts were identified using Indiana University’s Botometer — a software which helps identify a bot account.
Twitter changed its API on 2023-03-31 and made the Botometer no longer able to function.
According to the researchers, 90.16 per cent of the accounts tweeting on the Russia-Ukraine war were “pro Ukraine” and only 6.80 per cent were “pro Russia”.
The pro-Russian humans were the most convincing and influential cohort.
“The ‘ProRussia Not Bot’ account group has the largest outward information flows and significant flows to a range of other groups, having a positive information flow into both ‘ProUkraine’ and “Balanced” account groups, observed the researchers.
This means genuine pro-Russia users have the ability to influence more users on Twitter than genuine users who are pro-Ukraine.
IMO this is likely because they know facts which most people have been shielded from due to the strict, authoritarian censorship regimes imposed by Western countries, which they excuse as “combating Russian propaganda”. Liberals don’t actually know things.
Yes you always accuse the enemy of what you’re doing to muddy the water. It’s a very effective tactic. Makes most observers shrug their shoulders and go “both sides bad”
No, you accuse the enemy to make people believe that the enemy side is bad not that both side are bad. If you believe your side is not bad and that your government is not rigged as fuck i’m afraid you are right under the effect of propaganda.
If you are implying that any other nation on earth is as bad as the United States of America and its vassals (Israel, Ukraine, etc) then you are simply wrong. Your duty is to oppose your own empire not “both sides bad”
People duty is to oppose any empire and any scum, not to pick the lesser evil side.
There is only one empire on Earth right now and it’s the one you are part of. We live in a unipolar world, you must oppose the one and only empire.
Furthermore, even if that wasn’t the case and there were competing empires your first and foremost duty is against the one you reside in. Otherwise your “anti-empire” stance against enemies only reinforces the warmongering of your own.
I implore you to research the concept of Revolutionary Defeatism. If you do not follow it, you are a social chauvinist and not an ally of the international working class
Use your brain and stop thinking through slogans
Ok chauvinist. You are an enemy of the global working class if you cannot identify the imperialist core as your enemy