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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺
@marksugrue.com

Sadly, the story seems to be fake bsky.app/profile/raph...

Raphael Wimmer@raphaelwimmer.bsky.social

Currently, a diagram is making the rounds that is claimed to show a significant reduction in Russian disinformation bot activity after Ukrainian drones hit Yandex data centers. There is no evidence that this plot shows real data. I suspect that this image is AI-generated.

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Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺
@marksugrue.com

The impact on the datacenter is certainly real. And I do believe fake social media accounts are a big problem and many are likely controlled from Russia - but the impact on fake social media activity due to this bombing has not been measured.

Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺
@marksugrue.com

Apparently that refers to the activity of normal web crawers (for indexing, Yandex is a search engine like Google), not 'bot' in the meaning to fake social media accounts.

ArchangelZeriel
@archangelzeriel.bsky.social

My impression was that it's somewhere in the middle, and that it is trying to quantify any automated traffic (including crawlers, llm agents, etc.) It is not credible to me that the majority of traffic originating from Yandex's ASN is mere search crawler traffic, they are a major cloud provider.

Mark Sugrue 🇪🇺
@marksugrue.com

The amount of traffic in bytes from AI posting on social media would be much less than from a single webcrawler. Webcrawlers copy whole websites (incl images) while fake media accounts just post a few lines of text.