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🟢 LOW CREDIBILITY: We find that viral claims that drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia have impacted coordinated inauthentic social media activity are misstated and unfalsifiable. Treat such claims with skepticism, and bookmark this tracker. russianbots.america2.news

We will assess new claims as they come in. Russia’s information warfare operations are heterogeneous and distributed, often entrepreneurially, and generally operate in other countries. To the extent Yandex strikes may impact such operations, they would likely be...

in the area of toolchain dependencies: email, payments, AI, translations, etc. which can generally be swapped out for other solutions. Strikes on Yandex overall are good strategic moves for Ukraine as they impact domestic operations and state information processing capacity.

However any value such strikes may bring to information warfare operations is speculative and unproven. Our assessment is to not diminish the threat Russian information operations still pose, and to continue fighting on both of these fronts as if they are separate, if interrelated, concerns.

It's depressing how many here have blindly amplified it. Chadbourn has now deleted his viral post and others who have amplified that. As a German I was curious if there was any effect on AfD activity. Ironically a guy in Germany who runs a few AI slop pages debunked it first.