Did Ukraine Just Bomb the Russian Bots?

Russian bot farms survived the Yandex drone strikes untouched; influence operations run on rented residential proxies and human super-sharers, not data centers.

• Viral chart debunked: A European MP's chart claiming AFD-related bot activity collapsed after the Yandex strikes included three days of future data and was traced to an unverified Threads account.
• Yandex damage was narrow: Cloudflare found the drone strikes killed ~94% of Yandex's search-crawler bot traffic (just 0.05% of global bot traffic) but caused no detectable drop in social media bot activity.

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