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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.
Flash
@chaosflash912.bsky.social

This is one of those 'Nice if it's true' stories out there, in which I would like it to be true, but I'll wait for more information to come out. Thank you for looking into this matter, will be bookmarking this in case things change or new info comes to light 👍

Dave Troy
@davetroy.com

The danger is if it isn't true but people think it is, Russian information operations continue with impunity because they were never really hindered in the first place. That seems to be the best assessment as of right now.

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Flash
@chaosflash912.bsky.social

Very true, we want to make certain that Russian bot farms are out of commission instead of just taking things at face value. Agreed.