Nach Yandex-Angriffen sollen AfD-Bots um 56 Prozent eingebrochen sein. Was Cloudflare wirklich misst und warum die virale Grafik keinen Beleg liefert.
AfD-Bots und Yandex: Virale Grafik ohne Belege
Nach Angriffen auf Yandex soll die AfD-Aktivität auf X einbrechen. Doch der viralen Grafik fehlen Quellen. Ein Parteienvergleich zeigt ein anderes Bild.
#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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
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
Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?
Despite multiple Ukrainian strikes hitting Yandex servers in Russia, a thread by antibot4navalny, which has long tracked state-sponsored social media campaigns and troll farms, explains that the Cloudflare “Bot Traffic” chart many people have cited is really about automated web crawlers operated by Yandex accessing the web. It’s not connected to “bots” posting on social media, and Russian bot/crawler traffic overall continues to be about the same as normal. Still, are you noticing any difference in the posts and comments you’ve seen online? [Media: https://bsky.app/profile/antibot4navalny.bsky.social/post/3mxmv7t6nxc27]
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.”
Bot Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from AS13238 YANDEX Yandex LLC.
Bot Traffic from AS13238 | Cloudflare Radar
Bot Traffic trends and insights from AS13238 YANDEX Yandex LLC.
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.
Russian bot traffic has plummeted after Ukrainian drone strikes knocked out Russian tech giant #Yandex's biggest data centers. #Cloudflare reports that bot traffic from the Yandex network has dropped to just 0.4% of the maximum number of HTTP requests recorded over the past two weeks.
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 ...
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