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Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?

8 hours ago by return2ozma to c/technology

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Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic” chart many people have cited is really about automated web crawlers operated by Yandex accessing the web. It’s not connected to “bots” posting on social media, and Russian bot/crawler traffic overall continues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online? [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3mxmv7t6nxc27]
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KairuByte 63 points 7 hours ago

Extremely lazy copy paste:

Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?

Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic” chart many people have cited is really about automated web crawlers operated by Yandex accessing the web.

It’s not connected to “bots” posting on social media, and Russian bot/crawler traffic overallcontinues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online?

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A_norny_mousse 17 points 5 hours ago

Thanks. OPs should do that anyhow.

It stands to reason that attacking a few servers won't stop all of Russia's hybrid warfare, but it also stands to reason that there is some effect.

In any case, I hope Ukraine continues to succesfully attack (hopefully without civilian casualties) Russian infrastructure. We all benefit from that.

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UiUiUiUiUi 5 points 4 hours ago

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phutatorius 4 points 4 hours ago

If the goal is to gut down on fake posts, it'd be a lot more helpful if Ukraine were to drone a few troll farms. It might alos have a positive effect on the US November elections.

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wltr 2 points 3 hours ago

‘Meddling with the US elections, eh?’ An imaginable question of the (bought and promoted by Russia) US president to Ukraine.

I really like the irony of it. If Ukraine wants to affect the elections in their favour, they should target the bot farms indeed.

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