Russian Bot Activity Plunged 84% After Ukraine Hit Yandex Data Centers, but the Bots Were Back at Full Strength Within Two Days
The disruption was brief, with message volume rebounding above pre-strike levels within 48 hours, the CCD said.
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Ukraine Says Suspected Russian Bot Posts Fell 84% After Yandex Strikes, Then Rebounded Within Two Days
Suspected Russian bot posts in a Ukrainian monitoring sample fell 83.6% on Oct. 8 after a strike shut Yandex's Sasovo data center, but were back above pre-strike levels by Oct. 10, the Center for Countering Disinformation found. Cloudflare and Graphika saw little lasting effect.
Russian bot activity plunged 84% after Ukraine hit Yandex data centers, but the bots were back at full strength within two days
The 84% bot collapse after Ukraine's Yandex strikes was real, lasted about a day, and Cloudflare watched the automation move to rival clouds.
Did Ukraine's data center strikes affect Russia's bot army? We now have better evidence.
Pro-Russian accounts targeting Ukrainians on Facebook and Telegram sharply declined after Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers, according to a new report from a Ukrainian government agency. It’s the most direct evidence so far behind a claim that went viral last week, but it falls well short of proving it.The report comes from Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), which operates under the country’s National Security and…
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