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Motivated Reasoning and Confirmation Bias Drive Viral Claims of “Russian Bot” Declines

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Motivated Reasoning and Confirmation Bias Drive Viral Claims of “Russian Bot” Declines

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago

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A viral chart showed that Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex silenced the company’s search crawler. But many people were ready (and willing) to believe it showed something more.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.online /c/tech@piefed.world/p/2033724/motivated-reasoning-and-confirmation-bias-drive-viral-claims-of-russian-bot-declines

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