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Russia gifts meat grinders to mothers of soldiers killed in Ukraine for Women’s Day (tvpworld.com)

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18780870

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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They might be trying to confuse search algorithms, so that when Russians look for Ukrainian meat grinder, they get some articles with babushkas instead of blogposts that are critical about how Putin's regime conducts the war.

Edit after some more thinking about it: those critical blogposts probably get censored away, so that when Russians try looking for them, they find no relevant results. Now that these other meat grinder articles exist, the search results will be populated again and look less suspiciously devoid of relevant results.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's definitely this.

Boris Johnson did a super awkward interview where he talked about how he "loved painting models as kids, especially buses, red buses" so that he might bleed a little of the search results for "Boris johnson red bus" so that the massive lie he was caught wouldn't spread as wide. They know it doesn't stop the thing, but it affects it and they're not afraid of being laughed at, so...