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3 months agoFrom the actual study and the universities own videos, it’s more that they figured out a way to shape a custom lattice based on the shape of the object. This ugly brain man shows the idea off more than the clean looking prints in OP’s article.
Because there are the easy to measure Yandex web scraper bots, and the difficult to measure social manipulation bots. The former dropped noticeably.
It may also be that the latter dipped, but thats more difficult to say, and it would behoove a manipulative political entity to spread such operations to as many countries as possible so that they appear more organic and grassroot.
Imagine being a social media company with a bot problem though, how honest would you be? There are a lot of groups with motive to mislead in this scenario, so to me it makes sense that we see conflicting accounts regardless of what the truth is.