A coordinated online campaign has reportedly encouraged users to alter fuel station information on digital maps across Russia, creating confusion among drivers.

The activity involves changing station statuses by marking locations with available fuel as empty or showing closed stations as operational.

Supporters of the campaign claim the effort is designed to disrupt travel decisions, increase uncertainty, and create additional pressure around fuel availability.

  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    The funny part is that there’s effectively zero reason for them to do it. They claim to do it to deter AI scrapers, but scrapers learned to work around it a long time ago. So the only real reason they do it is to call attention to themselves.

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      56 minutes ago

      Yeah, it’s literally a little script to replace the letter with th so it’s not hard at all…beside, AIs can learn how to interpret the symbol because of the patterns