Russian disinformation campaigns saw an 84% activity drop after Yandex data center strikes. Can Ukraine sustain this disruption to combat Russian influence?
Yeah, most of the traffic drop was attributable to search spiders not running, not bots. Yandex is a state-captive search engine.
Routing of bot and troll traffic is almost certainly more diverse than that. There’s no readon it should be concentrated in specific data centers.
Having said all that, though, it’d be a happy day in my life to find out that some botnets were taken down or, better yet, some troll farms got droned.
Yeah, most of the traffic drop was attributable to search spiders not running, not bots. Yandex is a state-captive search engine.
Routing of bot and troll traffic is almost certainly more diverse than that. There’s no readon it should be concentrated in specific data centers.
Having said all that, though, it’d be a happy day in my life to find out that some botnets were taken down or, better yet, some troll farms got droned.