r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 19h ago

Society Ukraine Struck Yandex Data Centers, Russian Bots Went Silent—Now Questions Are Mounting

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/ukraine-struck-yandex-data-centers-russian-bots-went-silent-now-questions-are-mounting-23339
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u/PrizeSyntax 19h ago

Bots need data centers to run, data centers stopped working, bots stopped working. What's so complicated about that?

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u/ididntseeitcoming 18h ago

That’s a very shallow explanation of what happened.

The MASSIVE decline in anti vax, pro Russian propaganda, and other various misinformation posts/comments is what should be troubling.

A large amount of absolute garbage on the internet is being fed to the entire western world by Russian bot farms. And we are eating it up like hot cakes.

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u/Silly_Ebb_8745 17h ago

Yep, the takeaway is that what was mostly a meme with some truth to it is actually much, MUCH more prevalent than, really, anyone could have ever expected.