Nach Angriffen auf Yandex soll die AfD-Aktivität auf X einbrechen. Doch der viralen Grafik fehlen Quellen. Ein Parteienvergleich zeigt ein anderes Bild.
AfD-Bots nach Yandex-Angriffen? Grafik ohne Belege
Nach Yandex-Angriffen sollen AfD-Bots um 56 Prozent eingebrochen sein. Was Cloudflare wirklich misst und warum die virale Grafik keinen Beleg liefert.
#Faktenfuchs: Irreführende Grafik zu angeblicher Bot-Aktivität
Im Netz kursiert eine Grafik, die angeblich zeigen soll, wie infolge von Angriffen auf russische Rechenzentren die Online-Aktivität rund um die AfD abgenommen habe. Doch die Grafik weist große Unstimmigkeiten auf. Was sie darstellen soll, ist unklar.
Yandex Strikes, Russian Bots and Influence Operations | Graphika | Graphika
Did strikes on Yandex data centers silence Russian bots? Graphika analyzes viral claims involving AfD, MAGA and Reform UK and finds no notable decline.
Yandex Bot Traffic Fell 99 Percent Overnight. Here's How to Measure and Block the AI Crawlers Hitting Your Own Server
Last weekend two of Yandex's five data centres were hit by Ukrainian drone strikes, according to...
Legten ukrainische Drohnen „AfD Bots“ lahm?
In den letzten Tagen trafen ukrainische Drohnen drei Datenzentren in Russland. Im Internet heißt es jetzt, dadurch seien russische Bot-Netzwerke unterbrochen worden. Was ist da dran?
Drones Hit Yandex so Cloudflare Kept the Russians Online
A Czech MEP posted a chart of AfD online activity with data points dated after he posted it, and it showed 232,000 views inside two hours. By Sunday night Frank Luntz, Garry Kasparov and Timothy Snyder were spreading the news: drones hit Yandex, and Russia’s bot armies went silent. The strikes are real, and the following bot silence reports beg a deeper analysis of what is being measured and how.
After strikes on Yandex data centers, social media users began talking about the disappearance of AfD and MAGA bots. | Межа
Three Yandex data centers stopped operating after strikes, and the company’s network traffic plunged. The data do not confirm claims that political bot activity also fell.
Archived Fact-Checked Media — MediaVault
“3️⃣ Yandex is a search engine (among many other things). Which, by design, has crawlers (automatic robots) that browse web sites to index the Internet—which is how it then searches it on your behalf. Which (very likely) is exactly what CloudFare detects as (ro)bot traffic.”
Rapid-response fact-check: "Yandex Strikes Caused Russian Bot Activity To Drop By 50 Percent" Is False | Joohn Choe
This is going on viral on Facebook today and it's unfortunately wrong. Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers in Russia did not cut
Ukrainian drones hit three of Russian tech giant Yandex’s data centers in four days. Ukraine’s president says the bots thinned out too
Lithuania’s prime minister wants more such strikes to protect elections. Researchers say the bot data shows Yandex’s web crawlers, not trolls.
Ukraine nimmt Yandex ins Visier: Sind auf X weniger russische Bots unterwegs wegen der Angriffe auf Rechenzentren?
Im Netz heißt es, die Angriffe auf russische Rechenzentren bremsten Social-Bots. Was sich tatsächlich belegen lässt, ist weniger eindeutig.
Yandex
Yandex LLC is a Russian technology company that provides Internet-related products and services including a web browser, search engine, cloud computing, web mapping, online food ordering, streaming media, online shopping, and a ridesharing company. Yandex Search is the largest search engine in Russia with an estimated 72% market share in Russia and a 2.8% market share worldwide. Yandex Taxi is the largest ridesharing company in Russia.
Yandex outage: data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move
When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.
Kremlin-linked Matryoshka bot network spreads disinfo about a looming hantavirus pandemic in Europe, despite scientists pointing to low risk
The Kremlin-linked “Matryoshka” bot network is spreading videos and images disguised as content produced by reputable Western media outlets warning readers of…
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
Manipulation im Bundestagswahlkampf: Tausende Bots werben massiv für die AfD
Eine Bot-Armee verbreitet im Netz jeden Tag AfD-Propaganda. Die Spur führt nach Russland. Deutsche Behörden wissen um das Problem, bleiben aber untätig.
