Alistair Coleman

alistaircoleman.bsky.social

20 October 2026 08:27

As an actual (retired) North Korea watcher, I’m going to call chinny reckon on this until I see pink lady Ri Chun Hee crying and wearing black on Central Television. (Single source claim from a dissidentChinese political faction that is banned from China, so you know…)

Richard Irvine-Brown

richib.bsky.social

14 October 2026 11:49

Yes, those Yandex strikes took down Russian bots. No, not those kind of bots, says the evidence so far. With @shayan86.bsky.social, @olgar.bsky.social, @robcorp.bsky.social, @biancabritton.bsky.social and @paulybrown.bsky.social. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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antibot4navalny.bsky.social

13 October 2026 19:50

By popular demand: A follow-up thread on Russian bots, Yandex, Cloudflare, MAGA, AfD and "breathing easier" on social media. 1️⃣ We see no "dramatic drop" in traffic of Kremlin-aligned human trolls-for-hire targeting Russian domestic users (which we have been tracking for years).

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antibot4navalny.bsky.social

13 October 2026 19:50

3️⃣ Now it's a good time to ask Mr. Zelensky for evidence behind "where those bots were coming from"—which brought millions of views to clickbait outlets that didn't bother asking for proof. Hope his claim wasn't based solely on social media influencers and a placebo effect. x.com/ZelenskyyUa/...

Eliot Higgins

eliothiggins.bsky.social

12 October 2026 15:53

For all this talk of Russian bots being defeated by the Yandex strikes I'm still getting the usual Matryoshka emails with the same fake news posts and purchased bot engagement. Seems more like wishful thinking based on misinterpreted data than reality.