A chart of Yandex’s search crawlers going dark became, for some, proof that AfD, Reform UK and MAGA posters were Russian bots. Here is what it counted.
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Yandex Strikes, the Russian Bot Claim: What the Data Shows
Zelensky says Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex silenced Russian bots. The Cloudflare chart behind the claim counts Yandex’s web crawlers, not social media bots.