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this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2026
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fyi, the news story which this meme is premised on turned out to be a hoax.
none of the claims that there was a measurable drop in inauthentic social media activity as a result of the strikes on yandex datacenters held up when i tried to verify them. one of the graphs supposedly demonstrating it was obviously AI-generated and had dates in the future, while another was a cloudflare graph showing a drop in bot traffic but the bot there was solely yandex's search engine web crawler traffic.
it's remarkable how many people continue to believe it.
A little critical thinking also helps recognize this as a hoax. The Russian government is smart enough to know any such activity shouldn’t originate from Russian IP addresses. They’re likely using a combination of commercial VPN providers, cloud services like AWS, and potentially botnets to post to social media. (Well, probably not AWS, but there are literally hundreds of smaller cloud providers out there to choose from).
A lie will make it halfway around the world before the truth has had a chance to get out of bed.