Did Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex take out Russian bot farms? Not quite.
Snopes reports the plunge in automated traffic was just search engine web crawlers, not propaganda bots. Plus, researchers point out that Russian troll networks usually run on overseas infrastructure.
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Did Ukraine's strikes on Yandex servers take out Russian bots? What we know
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there were "fewer bots" online after Ukraine struck three of Yandex's servers.