TechThe Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots

After Ukrainian drone strikes knocked Russian data centers offline, a circulating chart appeared to show bot traffic plunging. But it likely tracks automated Yandex web-crawler requests, not Russian disinformation bots on social media; Cloudflare data indicates Russian bot activity overall stayed largely unchanged. Another chart claiming AfD-related activity plunged was questioned as possibly AI-generated and has no established source. Many Yandex systems remain offline, and its payment service head gave no restoration timeline.

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