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@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world •
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If we silenced all the sources of misinformation/disinformation people would be aghast at how quiet it is.

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If we silenced all the sources of misinformation/disinformation people would be aghast at how quiet it is.

@Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world •
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    When Russia invaded the Ukraine, and sanctions were initially placed against them and the internet to Russia was cut… Reddit was its old self for about 2 weeks. There were still some random nut bags wondering around saying crazy and hateful shit, but the level of misinformation and everything else dropped by at least 90%. It was pretty eye-opening.

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      What weeks? I wanna look on the IA.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦
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        If they mean the beginning of invasion, that would be end of February 2022

        • Kairos
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          Very little news on the front page

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        https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/08/lumen-internet-russia-backbone-cut/

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        Do you mean when they banned bots and like 95% of the content on most of the top reddits stopped coming in?

        Or did this happen twice?

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          https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/08/lumen-internet-russia-backbone-cut/

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