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.
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