This is wishful thinking. There are articles out there that looked into the real numbers and the impact was very small and temporary. I would have loved for it to be true

Can we stop with this already?

Elon was sure upset about something...

Yeah, most of the traffic drop was attributable to search spiders not running, not bots. Yandex is a state-captive search engine.

Routing of bot and troll traffic is almost certainly more diverse than that. There's no readon it should be concentrated in specific data centers.

Having said all that, though, it'd be a happy day in my life to find out that some botnets were taken down or, better yet, some troll farms got droned.

I'm curious what the hexbear and lemmygrad folks have to say about this. A shame my blocklist will never let me know.

This video says it wasnt really bots running out of those centers.

Who knows for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VseC2U0lBSM

This is why Trump is going full Russia now.

Mouaha ha ha ha!

Great job Ukraine!

Interesting, without larger date ranges it's hard to know if it's coincidental. Why telegram so much also? what do people even do on telegram.

I'm curious why they don't analyse Twitter, which is what other groups have said wasn't heavily influenced.

Overall claims by a government agency about how great the government is are a little suspect, but if their data are real it leaves questions like why the people the BBC spoke to directly contradict their findings.

TBH I don't feel like the ukrainian "anti-propaganada" unit is a reliable source. Also, even if true, this is just about one day in Ukraine.

I wouldn't consider this headline as being an honest version of "Russian Bot Activity Collapses by 84%". It's more like, "Ukrainian Goverment Claims Russian Bots Decreased in Ukraine by 84% for One Day (if true)."