points by ninjagoo 4 days ago | 0 comments
> I wonder what caused that prediction to fail.
A lot of media outlets have been fingering the outage of some data centers due to kinetic action for a worldwide decline in divisive rhetoric, potentially impacting democratic processes.
[–] spwa4 4 days ago
[–] senderista 4 days ago
This has been widely discredited.
[–] ShinyLeftPad 1 day ago
Cloudflare misunderstanding was discredited but there are other sources than just cloudflare: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-figures-se...
[–] aswegs8 4 days ago
Ha! I knew it. That was way too unlikely. But it was a great narrative. Kudos to Selenskyj.
[–] ShinyLeftPad 1 day ago
Don't mistake debunking Cloudflare graph for debunking that russian troll bots were affected, because they were: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/reform-figures-se...
[–] bluealienpie 4 days ago
This far less popular than United 24 which is a propaganda outlet disguised as a news site. People believe what they want to hear.
[–] locknitpicker 4 days ago
> This far less popular than United 24 which is a propaganda outlet disguised as a news site.
What are smoking? If you bother to check, United24 clearly describes itself as "The official fundraising platform for collecting donations to support Ukraine."
[–] pknerd 4 days ago
The world is more worried about US/CIA bots(US social sites) than any so-called Russian bots
[–] goobatrooba 4 days ago
European here, that's absolutely false in Europe.
[–] rebolek 4 days ago
Ah, speaker for the world!
[–] pknerd 4 days ago
Speaker for the region where elections and politics is manipulated by external forces
[–] defrost 4 days ago
Is there a country where elections and politics are not manipulated by external forces?
[–] pknerd 4 days ago
Middle East, because they conduct no elections :-)
[–] defrost 4 days ago
Fair point. I guess we can add Russia and tentatively pencil in USofA from 2028 onwards.
[–] atoav 4 days ago
Not everything you'd want to be true, is. Checking makes the difference, you just need to do it.
[–] Bassilisk 4 days ago
If that were true it would have diminished Lula "support" as Lula is strongly preferred by Russia due to his anti-US and anti-NATO stance.
[–] NewJazz 4 days ago
Lula is neither anti-US, nor is he anti-NATO. He is against a single country having hegemony over the globe, against US meddling in Latin American elections (including with trade policy as of late), and against huge defense budgets.
[–] geysersam 4 days ago
Why do Americans accept that their democratic country is actively intervening in other countries elections? It's grotesque. The US security establishment has been allowed to run amoc for decades and they have destroyed the values that made the US country that people admired across the world.
[–] NewJazz 3 days ago
The people in charge didn't run on this. Most of the real orchestrators are appointees, anyway. They're about to get a reality check fairly soon. I wouldn't be surprised if Hegseth were sacrificed. Rubio, the real brains behind the operations, will probably hold on somehow.
If Americans elect Rubio after all this, or resoundingly reelect a Republican congress, I think you have a better claim.
Tl;dr they don't accept it, but they keep getting tricked
[–] _fizz_buzz_ 4 days ago
That feels like an analysis stuck in 2015.
[–] InfiniteLoup 4 days ago
To me it often if feels like South American countries themselves are stuck in an eternal pendulum of electing corrupt left-wing populists after corrupt right-wing populists and swinging back again.
[–] t-3 3 days ago
That's representative democracy. There's not really any practical ways to delegate power without enabling corruption, so corruption is more or less inevitable without radical levels of transparency and public oversight.
[–] dv_dt 4 days ago
Im not sure the strategic calculation is as simplistic as that
[–] eptcyka 4 days ago
Would a Trump puppet not also be anti-NATO and pro-Putin?
[–] EdwardDiego 4 days ago
That's a bingo gif.
[–] falkenstein 4 days ago
hey i see what you did there. so funny
https://mronline.org/2026/10/16/meta-acknowledges-the-reduce...