Delivering dubious news in the blue, blue skies
One of the most prolific sources of right-wing media links on Bluesky is a single automated account
As Bluesky continues to grow in popularity, automated posting features from services such as dlvr.it have seen a corresponding increase in adoption. Tools of this sort are often used to create automated news feeds, frequently aggregated from multiple news sources and media websites, and have long been utilized for this purpose on older platforms such as X (formerly Twitter). While some of these automated feeds are operated by news organizations themselves, others are run and curated by random individuals. Among these is one of the most prolific sources of links to low quality right-wing news sites on Bluesky, an account that recently changed names from “Ian Hansen” to “BS Favourite AI Bot”.
A search performed on January 8th, 2026 for the most recent 50000 Bluesky posts containing dlvr.it links yielded posts from 960 distinct accounts, with the most prolific having posted hundreds of times via dlvr.it during that time period. The most frequent dlvr.it posters include accounts based in a variety of countries posting news and updates on a variety of topics, with the most active account being a UK-based flood alert feed. The second most frequent user of dlvr.it is a bit more interesting, however…
With 832 dlvr.it posts over the course of four days, the account @bsrussianbot.bsky.social (“BS Favourite AI Bot”) is one of the highest-volume users of dlvr.it on Bluesky. Almost all of this account’s posts are automated via dlvr.it, and almost all of the automated posts are links to right-wing media sites such as Gateway Pundit and Newsmax. Despite the high posting volume, most of the content gets very little engagement, and the account has thus far only accumulated a few hundred followers.
The “bot” portion of the @bsrussianbot.bsky.social account’s name is highly accurate, as almost all of the account’s posts are in fact automated. 95077 of 95658 posts to date (99.4%) were posted automatically via dlvr.it, with almost all of the automated posts being links to various conservative media sites. At peak times, the account exceeded 300 posts per day; the posting level generally fell off somewhat on weekends due to the underlying news sites publishing less content on Saturdays and Sundays.
The websites most frequently linked by the @bsrussianbot.bsky.social account are Breitbart, Newsmax, and Red State, with a smorgasbord of right-wing media sites filling out the remainder of the list. This account is among the most abundant sharers of English-language right-wing media on Bluesky, with tens of thousands of links to the most frequently linked sites. Note that these posts do not presently come up in Bluesky searches for the sites’ own domain names; instead, they appear under searches for “domain:dlvr.it”.
As mentioned earlier, the Bluesky account currently named @bsrussianbot.bsky.social (“BS Favourite AI Bot”) was recently renamed. Prior to January 8th, 2026, the account had the handle @ianhansen.bsky.social and the display name “Ian Hansen” (per contemporaneous screenshots). It is unclear whether this name has anything to do with the account operator, but given that the account’s content has been almost entirely automated all along, revising the name to include “bot” is a (perhaps unintentional) increase in honesty.
