Ukraine phone numbers can no longer register on Twitter. Is Elon poking the EU?
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So.... is he saying that Ukraine is one of the sources for the bot farms that plague Twitter?
That's my guess as well.
Apparently not just Ukraine.
This is probably the simplest way to stop botting in the interim. Figure out where most are coming from, and cut their ability to sign up entirely using the framework they already had in place.
Could be, after all Ukraine is not a member of EU, and it's known to be a very corrupt country. Most of EU has banned anonymous phone numbers and most social media is already blocking virtual phone numbers.
This means, you could probably order a prepaid sim card from Ukraine, get a legitimate Ukrainian number, cheap and anonymous and then use that to register a twitter account.
If so, then it would make perfect sense to use Ukrainian verified accounts for the bot farms, while the servers are most likely hosted in countries with soft laws against bots and reliable power/internet like Romania, the Netherlands or the Nordics.
Not exactly, the bot farms in which the US runs that promote the NPC programming such as vaccines, ukraine are gone. Illusion shattered
They may however have been physically located in the Ukraine, sort of like the biolabs. Just a hunch.
It’s plausible they could have been used as a proxy but doubtful. The infrastructure over there is completely fucked and not reliable to run bot farms with precious propaganda
How do you know this?
Know “what” exactly? The US based bot farms or ukraine not being feasible to have bot farms atm
My question was, how do you know that 'the bot farms which the US runs....are gone.'?
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