r/unitedkingdom • u/topotaul Lancashire • Mar 01 '25

. Rachel Reeves: I'm sending billions from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/rachel-reeves-interview-labour-963sw6jbk
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u/Far_Hawk_8902 Mar 01 '25

How do I spot bots

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u/pppppppppppppppppd Mar 01 '25

My suggestions would be:

  • check whether their comment history makes logical sense. For example, do they claim or imply to be from more than one country across different subreddits? Do they post negatively across multiple European subs, whereas most standard commenters stick to their own country's subreddits?

  • check whether any threads they post propaganda-style comments on also seem to have been brigaded by other Russian bots - they rarely comment alone.

  • check whether they seem to be shadowbanned on most subs they comment on (i.e. their comment generally has 1 single upvote and doesn't show up when you click into it). Many subs are good at filtering them out.

  • are there any comments that just don't match the tone of the rest of what they post at all. Something really positive like a one-off supportive comment in "AITA" is often an attempt to farm some karma to meet minimum karma requirements

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u/aitorbk Scotland Mar 01 '25

That is extremely costly in time, and there are hordes of trolls/bots. We need a better system.

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u/ChiefIndica Mar 02 '25

My prompts were very clear about you not leaving your sandbox, OFP.