Mechanics of Selective Comment Censorship: Controlled Experiment Showing Why Partisan Doom-Bloggers Ban Ukrainian Fact-Checkers Within Minutes While Preserving Russian Botfarms
Mechanics of Selective Comment Censorship: Controlled Experiment Showing Why Partisan Doom-Bloggers Ban Ukrainian Fact-Checkers Within Minutes While Preserving Russian Botfarms
- Publication / Verification Date:
2026-10-27 - Analytical Rubric:
DISINFORMATION MECHANICS (CRITERION #1) - Original Ukrainian Investigation Title:
Механіка вибіркової цензури ЛОМів: чому штатні «всепропальщики» банять українські факти, але зберігають коментарі ботоферм РФ
1. EXECUTIVE INTELLIGENCE & COMPLIANCE SUMMARY
Controlled OSINT experiment documenting the two-sided moderation filter used by Red-Contour political influencers: polite, sourced Ukrainian comments citing official documents or primary video timecodes are deleted and banned within minutes, while .XXXXXX, 615..., and ru-RU Russian bots remain pinned on the default comment wall.
2. METHODOLOGY & PRIMARY VERIFICATION SOURCES
- Zero-Hallucination Primary Evidence Standard: All findings in this investigation are cross-verified against official open registries (UA NSDC Presidential Decrees, Unified State Register of Court Decisions of Ukraine, Russian FNS EGRUL / Roskomnadzor registries, YouTube Innertube API locale metadata
ru-RU/availableCountryCodes, Facebook numericUID/ URL-slug forensics, and archived screenshots). - Bilingual Cross-Reference: Full Ukrainian verbatim transcripts and primary source quotes are preserved in the paired Ukrainian edition (
/issue/issue-zradofil-censorship-mechanics), while all forensic screenshots and visual proofs are embedded directly below.