{"id":23222,"date":"2026-10-17T22:45:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23222"},"modified":"2026-10-17T22:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T22:45:44","slug":"the-russian-bot-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23222","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Bot Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On social media, people are most likely to spread sensational bullshit that sparks their emotions. People share a lot of stuff created by bots or foreign troll farms, but bots and troll farms don&#8217;t make stuff go viral\u2026average people on social media sharing and liking such content does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Russian Bot Apocalypse\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JnceIDVMZyQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On social media, people are most likely to spread sensational bullshit that sparks their emotions. People share a lot of stuff created by bots or foreign troll farms, but bots and troll farms don&#8217;t make stuff go viral&#8230;average people on social media sharing and liking such content does. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,318,1010,135,612,489,315,328,1005,311,158],"class_list":["post-23222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-false-beliefs","tag-false-convictions","tag-falsehoods","tag-internet","tag-polarization","tag-russia","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23223,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23222\/revisions\/23223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}