r/SipsTea • u/Previous_Month_555 • 5h ago

Feels good man Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple Russian data centers.

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u/Critical_Concert_689 4h ago

I have yet to see a credible source for those centers being related to a drop in bot activity.

From what I was able to find, they were mostly running web crawlers and scrapers.

FYI. That IS the bot activity that dropped. For obvious reasons:

A data center that runs a major search engine was taken out, and was no longer able to run scripts to scrape, sort, archive, etc. internet content.

It's funny that the current propaganda push is that "bot traffic" is synonymous with "social media propaganda and advertisement."

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u/SomeNotTakenName 3h ago

I figured, since that is what cloudflare and co reported.

crazy how everyone just jumped on the "russion bots are gone" train. Probably helpful for the Russian bots.