'Russian Bots', Burning Data Centres and Partitioning the Internet
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Due to Ukrainian attacks on data centers, fewer Russian propaganda bots are said to be active.
'Russian bots', burning data centres and partitioning the internet
The Ukrainian military used their surfeit of drones to destroy Yandex data centres in Russia, and as a resulting "hostile" Russian bot activity dropped to almost zero. That's the story. There's no evidence it's true, of course, but since when did that make any difference? What were these alleged bots supposedly talking about? Well, that depends who you are. If you're a Covid-era pro-vaccine nut job, they were talking about Fauci and ivermectin a…
How the Yandex ‘Russian bots’ lie fell apart
RT | October 14, 2026 Did Ukraine’s strikes on Russian data centers destroy the Kremlin’s pro-MAGA bot army? Or are Vladimir Zelensky and his European patrons insulting their citizens with remedial-grade propaganda? RT takes a trip down the rabbit hole. Ukrainian forces hit three Yandex (Russia’s equivalent to Google) data centers with long-range drones between […]
The president of Ukraine said drone attacks on Yandex data centers reduced hate and disinformation in networks, but the reports cited do not show a decline in the activity of Russian bot farms.
A sourceless diagram and misinterpreted search engine traffic became a story about Russian opinion control that politicians and the media spread without any evidence.
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