Yandex bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak after Ukraine strike
Yandex confirmed outages at facilities in Sasovo, Kaluga and Vladimir; a drop in its network's automated traffic does not establish that disinformation bots were disabled.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Tom's Hardware
Why it matters
Yandex's outages show how attacks on a few data centers can disrupt cloud infrastructure and everyday services across borders. The accompanying bot-traffic claim goes further than the evidence: network-level automation data does not identify disinformation operators or their activity.
Ukraine's October drone strikes shut down or damaged three Yandex data centers in four days, disrupting services from cloud computing to taxi bookings. A separate claim that Russian disinformation bots nearly disappeared overstates what network traffic measurements can show.…