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LOL Ukraine hit a Russian data center and Russian bot activity immediately dropped to practically zero. Elon is mad hahahahahaha

Correction: they've hit THREE data centers :D

Here’s Zelenskyy on this. bsky.app/profile/thet...

Sadly, the story seems to be fake bsky.app/profile/raph...

That image, perhaps, but Cloudflare is also showing this as a reduction in yandex-based bot activity in real time. radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238... Notably, Cloudflare makes no specific claims about the type of traffic drop aside from it being generally detected as automated.

Apparently that refers to the activity of normal web crawers (for indexing, Yandex is a search engine like Google), not 'bot' in the meaning to fake social media accounts.

My impression was that it's somewhere in the middle, and that it is trying to quantify any automated traffic (including crawlers, llm agents, etc.) It is not credible to me that the majority of traffic originating from Yandex's ASN is mere search crawler traffic, they are a major cloud provider.

The amount of traffic in bytes from AI posting on social media would be much less than from a single webcrawler. Webcrawlers copy whole websites (incl images) while fake media accounts just post a few lines of text.

The cloudflare graphs are tracking HTTP requests, not bytes.

The point here is not that the Cloudflare data shows evidence directly of social media bots. The point is that cloudflare data shows a massive drop in automated traffic from both Yandex directly (AS13238) and their primary cloud network (AS200350), and that the proportion of that traffic ...

... observable by Cloudflare that is automated traffic is absurdly high, and now that traffic is essentially gone. It's a data point.

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