{"id":7034,"date":"2026-10-13T22:57:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T05:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:25:35","slug":"russian-troll-bots-have-not-gone-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=7034","title":{"rendered":"Russian Troll Bots Have Not Gone Offline En Masse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not in any significant numbers, anyhow. Anyone asserting so is spreading misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This first came to my attention via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1FatD2SurP\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1FatD2SurP\/\">Joohn Choe<\/a>, who has always struck me as a reliable source who values factual correctness. Tellingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2026\/10\/13\/ukraine-yandex-strikes-russian-bots\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2026\/10\/13\/ukraine-yandex-strikes-russian-bots\/\">Snopes backs this up<\/a>, saying flatly that &#8220;The claim that Ukrainian strikes on Russian bot farms caused right-wing or MAGA social media activity to decrease is unproven.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/yankex-russia-ukraine-bots-9.7379086\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/yankex-russia-ukraine-bots-9.7379086\">The CBC agrees<\/a>, reporting that &#8220;Zelenskyy&#8217;s claims that Ukraine drone attack halted Russian bot traffic don&#8217;t hold up.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not in any significant numbers, anyhow. Anyone asserting so is spreading misinformation. This first came to my attention via Joohn Choe, who has always struck me as a reliable source who values factual correctness. Tellingly, Snopes backs this up, saying flatly that &#8220;The claim that Ukrainian strikes on Russian bot farms caused right-wing or MAGA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7038,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions\/7038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}