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schizoidman vía Europe

ayer, 23:42 (Recibido hoy, 0:38)

schizoidman
ayer, 23:42 (Recibido hoy, 0:38)

Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots?

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.
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".
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.

Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots?

Experts say there is no evidence that Russian trolls have been affected by Ukraine’s Yandex attacks.

^{Richard Irvine-Brown (BBC News)}

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in reply to schizoidman

Carlos Solís

in reply to schizoidman hoy, 0:52

The AI-powered bots that were hosted directly on Yandex servers and could not be moved to a different server (or manually replicated) after the strike, those are the ones that certainly went down - but, of course, it's only a fraction of a highly distributed disinfo structure, and it will eventually rebuild elsewhere.

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in reply to Carlos Solís

Carlos Solís

in reply to Carlos Solís hoy, 0:56

The servers that Russia would be most affected by in case of a disruption would be those of VKontakte - their local everything app, government paperwork manager and panopticon, VK Max, is of mandatory use in Russia to the detraction of all other messengers, so seeing VK's servers down would mean massive problems for the government

schizoidman vía Europe

schizoidman ayer, 23:42 (Recibido hoy, 0:38) • •

Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots?

Is Zelensky right to say data centre strikes have taken down Russian bots?

Carlos Solís

Carlos Solís

schizoidman
ayer, 23:42 (Recibido hoy, 0:38)