Drone Strikes Didn’t Take out a Russian Bot Farm, But We Were Primed to Believe It

On Monday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that a Ukrainian bombing strike on Yandex’s data centers, a large Russian technology company, had led to a sudden decrease in bot activity online. “When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms,” Zelenskyy declared, speaking at the opening […]

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