Part of Russia's Escalating Strikes on Ukraine · 20 stories · since Sep 26 · newest 10m ago
Ukraine's Yandex data-center strikes spark disputed claim of Russian bot collapseAnalysts detail why the bot-traffic chart is misleading
5 Oct 13 1:46 AM · 3d ago · 9 articles · 2 videos · 60 posts · 9 comments · 8 sources · development 5 of 8
Researchers including lukOlejnik explained in detail that the viral chart conflated web-crawler traffic with disinformation bot networks, calling the narrative a dangerous technical misconception.
“No, a Yandex cloud malfunction did not take down disinformation/troll bots. It's a dangerous misconception. This is not how it works, not even technically.”
@lukOlejnikVolodymyr Zelensky Ukrainian presidentYandex Targeted Russian tech companyGossiTheDog Cybersecurity researcherLukasz Olejnik Cybersecurity/OSINT researcherevacide Mastodon commentator/researcher
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Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 8 claims were published in its stretch
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first by Mastodon, 3d ago · also Mashable, Gizmodo
2 more headlines
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first by Mastodon, 3d ago · also Ars Technica
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first by Mastodon, 3d ago
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first by Daily Wire, 3d ago
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1 outlet More than 400 Ukrainian drones flew toward Moscow, school building damaged in Russia’s Kaluga region
first by Meduza EN, 3d ago
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first by Meduza EN, 3d ago
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No, a Yandex cloud malfunction did not take down disinformation/troll bots. It's a dangerous misconception. This is not how it works, not even technically. After Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers, a viral chart showed Russian "bot traffic" collapsing. But those bots are
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"Pro-Kremlin bloggers are warning that Russia’s centralized digital economy could collapse because the country is not prepared for the “data center war” it started" - arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026... go for them, zelensky
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Ukraine should continue to do this because it will help with keeping many Russian bots from influencing US elections. "On X, Reddit, and elsewhere, users in several Western countries reported seeing less right-wing activity in their feeds, from pro-GOP accounts in the U.S. to supporters of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party."…
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Some accounts in here are trying real hard to "disprove" this story (libraryaddict and Eyebrows360) so for clarity I thought I'd add info from two other comments that counters their argument. First of libraryaddict says the blackout didn't happen to which someone replied: So the follow-up comment clarified that the referenced 8-hour blackout…
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On October 8-10, Ukraine destroyed 3 data centers in Russia. Since then bot activity has plummeted and so have Google searches for many health misinformation topics. An Unexpected Public Health Victory: Will a drone strike in Russia save lives in the US?
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Gee Wilikers, it's a shame I won't get to read the online takes of 'TrumpSuperPatriotWarEagle87622134' anytime soon...
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Jeremy Hsu pointing out - on 13 Oct - that Russia’s getting back what it started (kabooming data centres) is not working out so well for them because: centralised (Ukraine’s are more decentralised, some even underground). Several lessons here in realms from population & business control issues to war tactics & strategy, but what caught my…
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It's a mixture of things. Engagement numbers on right wing accounts dropped 70-90% in some cases. Lots of threads where usually there is a flood of anti-West comments instantly had no such activity suddenly. At first critics claimed it was just a weekend effect, but now it's Tuesday and it's still the same, so that argument is essentially…
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Have the Kremlin bots disappeared? After strikes on Yandex data centers, automated traffic plummeted nearly 250-fold Social media users quickly noticed an interesting coincidence: as traffic dropped, pro-Kremlin bots also appeared to become less active. These accounts flood
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#Russia was not ready for the #datacenter war it started with #Ukraine
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Centralization deficits also appear to have caused a notable crash in # misinformation and # disinformation flowing through 'X' etc. Thank you, # ukraine . https:// arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/1 0/russia-was-not-ready-for-the-data-center-war-it-started-with-ukraine/
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This whole thread is left wing disinformation against the right wing. There's zero evidence for these claims. There have been no blackout or evidence of less disinformation bot activity anywhere. Those bots don't even run on regular cloud software like what's in those yandex datacenters.
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex didn’t make a dent in Russian bot traffic. Ukraine hit 2 Yandex data centers last week, including the hub that runs most of Russia’s top AI model, and some claimed Russian bot traffic had crashed as a result. But Cloudflare, which tracks a huge
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Another reason not to want to live by a Data Center. Data Centers will be targets for enemy countries to take out if we are in a conflict. And when we have an idiot president, that will be a potential problem.
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With reports showing massive drops in automated social media manipulation following physical targeted strikes on Russian server hubs, the link between foreign IT infrastructure and Western election disruption is undeniable. Securing democratic resilience demands action. # FBPE https://www. euronews.com/2026/10/12/did-uk…
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I'm not sure exactly what you did TBH. I just assumed you had something set up to do it, and thought you should share it if you did. I could probably figure it out, but not everyone could, and many who could are either too busy or too lazy.
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Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out three of the largest data centers owned by Yandex. These outages highlight how Russia's centralized digital economy is vulnerable to retaliation. Source: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/… #Tech
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Ars Technica (@arstechnica) 러시아-우크라이나 전쟁이 데이터센터와 디지털 인프라를 겨냥한 경쟁으로 확장되고 있다는 관점의 글이다. 전력·네트워크·데이터센터가 군사 및 국가 운영의 핵심 자산이 되면서, AI 연산 인프라의 지역 분산·복원력·물리 보안 중요성을 보여준다. https:// x.com/arstechnica/status/21097 04795900817899 # datacenters # infrastructure # ukraine # russia # resilience
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This should be eye opening for everyone using X or such platforms. Also for governments. Stop communicating on it when they are used to push a far-right agenda with the consent of their owners.
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cybersecurity analysts clarified that "automated traffic" includes search engine crawlers and general infrastructure tools as well as political propaganda bots Also note
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Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent. Online hate and trolling way down. https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=pOLD52ucjSg https:// united24media.com/war-in-ukrai ne/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339
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Yes. Twitter has been completely transformed. It’s pretty freaky. In Germany, they saw that far-right social media posts dropped by over 90% after the strikes
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Ukraine’s decentralized digital services could prove more resilient than Russia’s centralized system if the countries continue trading such blows.
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Ukrainian drone strikes have hit three of Yandex's six major data centers. The BBC reports that two were shut down entirely. Outages spread across Russia's internet, exposing its reliance on Yandex. A full recovery could take months. https:// meduza.io/en/cards/ukrainian-d…
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