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Internet infrastructure company whose data fueled the viral claim · Internet infrastructure company / analysis author · Network infrastructure company — in 3 stories, 2 quotes on record.

What they said verbatim

“across Cloudflare's network, there was no evidence that the strikes knocked social media manipulation offline or otherwise disrupted malicious activity on the Internet.”
Cloudflare Blog · Oct 13 · Cloudflare data: Russian bot traffic didn't vanish after Yandex strikes, it moved

“Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks. There was no evidence that the strikes knocked social media manipulation offline.”
The National UAE / Cloudflare · Cloudflare: Ukraine's Yandex strikes didn't disrupt Russian disinformation

In these stories

Ukraine Hits Yandex Data Centers a Third Time, Igniting a Russian Bot-Traffic Debate Internet infrastructure company whose data fueled the viral claim · Security · 2h ago

Its public bot-traffic radar for the Yandex ASN became the center of the disputed 'bots' narrative.

Cloudflare data: Russian bot traffic didn't vanish after Yandex strikes, it moved Internet infrastructure company / analysis author · Security · 3h ago

Published data showing strikes did not disrupt global malicious bot activity despite Yandex outage.

Cloudflare: Ukraine's Yandex strikes didn't disrupt Russian disinformation Network infrastructure company · Security · 9h ago

Clarified that traffic drop was search crawlers, not social media bots, and that malicious bots migrated to other networks.