https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Zelensky? He was like one of the last people to say it out loud.

So tired of these propagandistic pieces.

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Let’s not draw a conclusion from a single data point. Blow up a few more data centers, observe the results, and again, and again.

Once we have a sufficient amount of peer review and replicable data, then we can determine if a reduction in misinformation bot activity is or is not among the plethora of other benefits of blowing up data centers.

For science!

This has been up for thirty minutes and no one has showed up telling you how zelenski is a war criminal or some nonsense. Maybe he’s on to something.

tldr: no, fake bot accounts were not affected, only bots like Yandex search engine crawlers

I think it’s possible a lot of Russian bots are still good old fashion people paid low wages spamming us all manually.

Since a lot of people here (myself included) also misinterpreted the recent news, here are some excerpts for those who haven’t read the article.

If I had to guess, I’d say that you don’t need a data center to run a social media bot that spits out the same generic inflammatory lines all day.

Claims that Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres reduced Kremlin-linked bot networks have spread widely online, but experts have told BBC Verify there is no evidence the attacks have significantly reduced them.

Viral social media posts have claimed there has been a significant drop in influence operations in recent days, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggesting on Monday there was “less hate, less division and fewer provocations” online because of “fewer bots”.

But claims these attacks have affected Russian disinformation operations, including accounts posting supportive messages about groups including the Make American Great Again (MAGA) movement in the US and the far-right AfD party in Germany, appear to have come from a misinterpretation of data produced by tech firm Cloudflare.

Some social media users have been sharing charts of Cloudflare data which show bot activity using Yandex’s network has declined.

While bots are commonly associated with fake social media accounts that may post false, divisive and inflammatory content, they are also used to automate tasks like scanning web pages so they appear on search engines.

Cloudflare clarified its data includes all automated internet requests to websites hosted on its network, including bots crawling websites for information.

The company also said the drop off was “not necessarily bot behaviour on social media platforms”.

Researchers from dTeam, a US-based group that tracks Moscow-linked influence operations, told BBC Verify there has not been “any traffic change from known Russian accounts and bot clusters on any platform”.

They added that if the offices of known groups involved in these operations “were in flames then we would see a change”.

Bots linked to pro-Kremlin influence operations like Storm-1516 and Matryoshka - both of which BBC Verify has previously reported on - were still active on social media on Tuesday, evidence shared with BBC Verify by dTeam shows.

I’ve been accused of being a Russian bot countless times, even though I’m just a rando from Spain. I think the whole Russian bot thing is blown out of proportion.