Drone Strikes Didn’t Take Out a Russian Bot Farm, But We Were Primed to Believe It

Source: www.motherjones.com · Section: politics · Bias: Center · Published: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:07:16 GMT

On Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that a Ukrainian bombing strike on Yandex’s data centers, a large Russian technology company, had led to a sudden decrease in bot activity online. “When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms,” Zelenskyy declared, speaking at the opening […]

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