Russian Botfarms, Thanks to Ai, Generate Hundreds of Thousands of Comments Every Month without Human Participation,

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Research teams OpenMinds and DFRLab have detected 3,600 bots in the telegram channels of the occupied territories of Ukraine, which in less than a year and a half have written at least 316 thousand comments. The same bots wrote at least 3 million comments on channels in Ukraine, Russia, and later Moldova.

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Russia is deploying in the occupied territories a new digital instrument of control over the population. For example, in the town of Genichezke of Herson province, local entrepreneurs have been ordered to introduce an ID MAX service, an identity recognition system integrated with Russian State registers. This is reported by the Centre for National Resistance. Under the guise of age checks, the occupiers are launching a full-fledged tracking mech…