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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

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.

Virginia Heffernan

@virginiaheffernan.bsky.social

Thank you. This is persuasive too: bsky.app/profile/anti...

antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов@antibot4navalny.bsky.social

To those implying that Kremlin-controlled social media bot/troll farms became silent after Ukraine hit a Yandex data center, posting this CloudFare chart ( radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 ): Hate to disappoint you all ⤵️

Dave Troy

@davetroy.com

Yes, included that analysis in our sourcing. Overall there just isn't evidence to support the claims as of right now, though such evidence could conceivably emerge. The downside of being wrong here is that RU info ops continue unabated and unhindered.

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Virginia Heffernan

@virginiaheffernan.bsky.social

The enthusiasm for internet liberation from bots is quite something. I feel it too. It's too hard to doubt and block, and remain vigilant. We want a [silicon] bloodbath.

Dave Troy

@davetroy.com

Yes, we all want this to stop. But if it was easy to stop, we would have simply blocked Yandex's ASN years ago and it would not be happening. It's a problem because they bypass easy digital controls; so physically blowing up datacenters is low marginal yield.