or outright cowards too afraid to have a stance on anything for fear of being wrong or unliked

has it? i hadn’t seen that. can you send me an example of how it was disproven?

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers

this is the context people are talking about. i can’t say for certain if i think know it’s true. all i can really say for sure is that i’ve seen a lot less pro-fascist activity online (which is also backed by the article you originally posted about)

data centers house computers that can be rented by potential users for multitenancy use. it is extremely popular to run distributed workloads, like bot farms, on this hardware. all of the major cloud providers, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, GoDaddy, Rackspace, Alibaba, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Yandex, Baidu, are hosting massive numbers of bots that could be employed to do a multitude of things.