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Dave Troy
@davetroy.com

🟢 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

russianbots.america2.newsThe Russian Bot Collapse Report: did Russia's bots really go quiet?A sourced, live check on the viral claim that Ukraine's strikes on Yandex data centers silenced Russian social-media bots: what the data measures, what it doesn't, and who is spreading which claims.
Roger Jacucci
@rogerjacucci.bsky.social

If it's not true, we need to figure that out. And fast. Because the consequences of incorrectly believing it to be true could be just as bad as incorrectly believing it to be false.

Dave Troy
@davetroy.com

Right now there are a lot of people making claims that are either unfalsifiable, untrue, or simply fabricated. There is no data-based evidence to point to because there is no one central way to measure this outside of the platforms themselves, and they aren't talking.

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Roger Jacucci
@rogerjacucci.bsky.social

IIRC, there used to be an organization in the late 1990s early 2000s that monitored and assessed internet traffic for international threats. I don't remember their name, or if they still exist. It might have been related to SpamCop, somehow.

Dave Troy
@davetroy.com

There are a decent number of such think tanks doing that kind of work but it has become much harder in recent years. So far nothing credible has emerged with a data-driven analysis.