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/SirPseudonymous 14h ago

They made it up. The only actual facts here are that after a datacenter belonging to yandex (a search engine) was hit, traffic involving search indexer webcrawlers identifying themselves as belonging to yandex decreased.

It's already an established fact that most right wing astroturfing is from bot farms in Israel and the US, because no shit things that support the white supremacist oligarch ruling class in the US and that support the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine are going to be pushed domestically by the local ruling class using local assets, not by a foreign power that's at odds with the ruling class this bullshit supports.