They don’t care about bots, they care about things that trigger their cognitive dissonance. If the bot is contributing to their echo chamber, they love it.
Quite the stupid article.
In what way?
I’m just glad for the silence, even if it won’t last.
There is no silence unfortunately, just a lot of wishful thinking
“Not quite true” sounds like another way of saying “true”.
Bot traffic is down: meaning the bots that Yandex used to index webpages for their search engine. The article doesn’t take very long to make that point, you could have just skimmed it to see that (I did).
So it’s true, but not in the way people mean it when they say “all the russian bots are gone!”.
So people are assuming “bot” means what Twitter users refer to as “bots” and “fewer bots” could just be “fewer web crawlers”.
