The Yandex outage probably didn’t blitz Russian bots
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TL;DR
- Ukrainian drone strikes have impacted Russian data centers, including Yandex.
- A widely shared chart shows a significant drop in bot traffic on Yandex services following these strikes.
- Experts state the chart measures automated Yandex web crawlers, not social media disinformation bots.
- These crawlers have legitimate uses like search engine indexing and customer support.
- The data specifically relates to Yandex traffic and not overall Russian bot activity, which remains largely unchanged.