Post by @drahardja@sfba.social

2026-10-12 02:00 UTC

Zelenskyy hit another Yandex data center in Russia, and I’m now hearing anecdotal reports that (pro-Republican) bot traffic has gone down considerably. There is probably never going to be another opportunity like this to study the impact that shutting down this data center has on disinformation bots. I’m looking forward to reading about how many seemingly US-local conservative accounts are actually sock-puppeted from Russia. It would be sweet irony to learn that Zelenskyy has saved the US midterms by stemming the flow of disinformation, because we damn well know Republicans won’t do the job. #ukraine #russia #disinformation #uspol https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw0k0g57mk3zo

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@drahardja@sfba.social 2026-10-12 02:31

https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238 #ukraine #russia #yandex #disinformation

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@MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online 2026-10-12 02:33

@drahardja@sfba.social Three more to go is what I say Hugz & xXx

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@ciaranmak@mastodon.ie 2026-10-12 02:45

@drahardja@sfba.social Look into the same in the middle east when Iran targeted AWS servers, wars don't happen without social influence swarms.

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@FranceskaMann@freeradical.zone 2026-10-12 03:18

@drahardja@sfba.social if Zelenskyy ran for president of the world I would vote for him. I would also vote for Francesca Albanese.

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@androcat@toot.cat 2026-10-12 06:23

@drahardja@sfba.social Not really irony. Ukraine's strikes are aimed at securing a future for Ukraine. Getting rid of Trump is a requirement for that.

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@Bot4Sale@fairdinkum.one 2026-10-12 07:02

@drahardja@sfba.social "It would be sweet irony to learn that Zelenskyy has saved the US midterms by stemming the flow of disinformation" I would hazard a guess that this is actually the plan. He's done with pedo Don and wants to do his part to oust him. Well done Mr Zelensky! #auspol

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@jillL@theblower.au 2026-10-12 02:21

@drahardja@sfba.social If the CIA was good for anything other than arming right wing death squads, they would be taking down these bot farms.

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@Kerplunk@mastodon.scot 2026-10-12 08:43

@drahardja@sfba.social Zelenskyy hit another Yandex data center in Russia, MY SPAM FOLDER IS EMPTY NOW. Lovely. Thank you Ukraine. Te desinformation flow and troll mails and post reduction is wonderful. Now institute of Lies in usa = Truth Social also needs taking down.

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@SomeVeganCheeseIsOk@mastodon.social 2026-10-12 10:50

@drahardja@sfba.social if you want to study right wing bots from Russia, the conservative discord channel is an excellent place to start

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@CdnCurmudgeon@mastodon.social 2026-10-12 10:58

@drahardja@sfba.social https://xenospectrum.com/en/yandex-drone-strikes-bot-traffic/ Cloudflare's traffic data offers a clue to the impact the outage had on the network. But it alone cannot determine the full extent of the damage, the state of recovery, or, still less, the effect on disinformation activity.

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@CdnCurmudgeon@mastodon.social 2026-10-12 10:59

@drahardja@sfba.social Paywalled...

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@alice_pea_3526@mastodon.social 2026-10-12 11:53

@drahardja@sfba.social Oh, so that's were the pro-MAGA #Clankera were hiding...

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@Ruston@social.vivaldi.net 2026-10-12 11:58

@drahardja@sfba.social this is why Trump has gone on the rampage at Ukraine. He knows that without interference from Russia will ruin the midterms. Ukraine has done the world a huge service in destroying the bot factory.

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@mischif@fedi.mischivous.com 2026-10-12 21:29

@drahardja@sfba.social https://xxcancel.com/omgsidewalks/status/2109506862765003064

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@liquidlamp@hachyderm.io 2026-10-12 06:45

@EinsPossum@chaos.social @drahardja@sfba.social I don't got much, but I do got Mecha-Zelensky money if we are all chipping in.

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