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- world@quokk.au
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- cross-posted to:
- ukraine@sopuli.xyz
- world@quokk.au
- monde@jlai.lu
cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11858823
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Over the weekend, Ukraine carried out a co-ordinated drone strike against several major Russian data centres. This completely decimated Russia’s Yandex, … which controls more than 70% of search traffic in the country, and has reportedly resulted in a dramatic fall in bot traffic from the Yandex network.
As per the bot analysts at Tom’s Hardware, bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded in the past two weeks. That means activity from automated, Russian-hosted accounts has been virtually eliminated on social media.
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As a result, the social media engagement on posts from [far-right] Reform UK figures appears to have dropped in the wake of Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres.
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There has already been a strong and significant impact on bot traffic in countries such as France and Germany.
David Colon, a French information operations researcher, has noted a huge difference in the performance of narratives generated by the Russia-linked information operations group, Storm-1516.
The silencing of the bots also appears to have caused a dramatic drop in activity around Germany’s far-right AfD…
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Amongst others, the article is citing Britain’s Reform politician Richard Tice. Three posts on X from the Reform deputy leader to his almost 400,000 followers on Monday, 11 October [hadn’t] hit triple figures for reposts or comments, with one not even reaching 10,000 views … Before the Ukrainian strikes on the Russia data centres, Tice’s posts got considerably more engagement, consistently hitting triple figures for comments and reposts, whilst racking up hundreds of thousands of views.
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A similar pattern can be seen when it comes to other far-right figures such as Nigel Farage [the linked article is given evidence about that].
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As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky himself said after the strikes on Russian data centres, it’s suddenly become a “little easier to breathe” on social media.
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The BBC has debunked the claims in this article.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko
Misinformation can come from anywhere.
Also debunked independently by German Netzpolitik https://netzpolitik.org/2026/angriffe-auf-yandex-aus-brennenden-rechenzentren-in-russland-wird-kein-bot-ausfall-bei-der-afd/
So. Just so the internet gets usable again, we need a gofundme-campaign for ongoing long range strikes on data centers.
we need a gofundme-campaign for ongoing long range strikes on data centers.
Ask and you shall receive the official Ukrainian defensive war donation site
It would be trivial to just set up the operation on AWS or Microsoft servers in the US. I guess the reason the have not done it is that the US would have full insight in the software, users and social media accounts they’re using, which might be an issue if the government changes.
Sí, Señor.
Not only in Europe, when you look at the tweets of the White House from today, you basically don’t see any MAGA replies under them and almost exclusively criticism which is genuinely insane compared to the situation a week ago.
Telling, isn’t it?
I’d love to see some screenshots.
Here’s one (was too large to upload it to Lemmy). I could keep scrolling, but you probably get the picture.
Sorry I don’t go on twitter please explain it like I just landed on this planet. Don’t get me wrong I’ve been sharing the OP’s link where I can.
The whole Yandex is just a search engine crawler is such tanky bs (they do hosting too).
Top one is Trump’s post. The rest is replies to him. The ads sprinkled in are in German. 1 T in the top right corner of each one means “1 day” which is how old the post/replies are.
Would you normally see a lot of praise on a trump post? Remember I live under a rock if twitter is concerned.
Not a clue. He made his own social media platform a year or so back and I only look at Twitter if it’s some NFL news I can’t find elsewhere.
Then I have no idea what Redditquaza is trying to say with their link
But tankies told me that Russia is a peaceful democratic country, and that Russia has no will whatsoever to act aggressively towards its neighbours, even on the internet.
In fact, tankies told me that westerners are the only people in the world who are ever aggressive, malicious, or evil.
Don’t know who you talked to. You can believe in communism AND say that Russia is a hostile pos of a state and that Putin is a war criminal and should be judge as so.
They said tankies, not communists
Yeah. Simping for authoritarian regimes, while larping leftists, has absolutely nothing to do with communism.
You’re absolutely right. Thanks for correcting me.
What does Putin have to do with communism? Except hating it.
Don’t know who you talked to. You can believe in communism AND say that Russia is a hostile pos of a state and that Putin is a war criminal and should be judge as so.
Yes, but not on any community on lemmy.ml…
You’ve apperently not talked to a lot of .lm users then.
Not a single “Tankie” told you this. You’re just a liar.
It’s certainly the general gist of what tankies say.
I can’t wait to see how different the internet is when Israeli data centres get hit.
I wonder if that will make any difference in Brazil’s runoff round of elections…, hopefully they can stay offline until the 25th, (or even Nov 3 would be nice)?
This is misleading. Those HTTP requests from the Yandex network are mostly Yandex search engine crawlers. There is no reliable link to numbers about social media bots. source
The http requests are only one point of information, the article links more sources and investigations in addition to that. All point in the same direction.
Oh look, an ml denies Russia are the bad guys. Everyone scratch that off your daily Lemmy bingo card.
Russia are the bad guys. I just think the article is misleading
I know that it’s anecdotal but the drop off in MAGAposting on X and AP articles has been noticeable; very noticeable.
while I do agree that most mls say that, and that I disagree with their denial as you do too, the post you are replying to does not make any denial of russia being bad in anyway, it simply argues based on real factal data that the datacenters are not responsible for the bots
That field is no longer issued, we have “beans” as a free field.
let’s now bomb the indian, chinese, american, israeli or any other bot farms and data centers and live in an utopia.
You CAN just turn off your Internet access if you want to.
true. i could also kill myself because life is unfair.
I bet the new Russian Bots are hosted in the US
What do you think the data center under the east wing is going to be for?
they probably using residential ips as proxies from the USA, where the command and control server is barely matters
A master stroke by those who oppose concentration of power in a minority of wannabe fascists and dictators. This exposes how the wannabe fascists and dictators are trying to use fossil fuel revenue to simulate and impersonate a large population of electors, with artificial bots (or is it “super bots” now? 🤣)
This should be national news in every country it affected significantly. What more proof is needed that democracies are under siege and it’s working to manipulate elections? Countries should invest massively in preventing this kind of propaganda and defending their democracies.
Not only that, but JK Rowling’s supporters mysteriously vanished
The Ukrainians responsible for this attack and its blatant results are heroes.
Now, how to identify, worldwide, the bot servers and destroy them all?
Simple. Destroy all servers. No Internet, no bots.
They were debunking the graph. Russia doesn’t keep a public facing graph for how many bots they have online.
The people will still happily vote for them though, because we’re among morons.
