Summary

Brad Paisley says his team watched the online response to his 2023 Ukraine solidarity song “Same Here” go from very positive to overwhelmingly negative — a shift he attributes to Russian bots posing as Americans. “When it came out, the response was 98 percent positive, based on what my web guy was tracking,” Paisley said during an appearance on Rolling Stone ’s Nashville Now podcast. “And then the Russian bots got ahold of it, and we watched it flip to…90 percent negative.”

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