Claims that Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centres reduced Kremlin-linked bot networks have spread widely online, but experts have told BBC Verify there is no evidence the attacks have significantly reduced them.
Researchers from dTeam, a US-based group that tracks Moscow-linked influence operations, told BBC Verify there has not been “any traffic change from known Russian accounts and bot clusters on any platform”.
Bots linked to pro-Kremlin influence operations like Storm-1516 and Matryoshka - both of which BBC Verify has previously reported on - were still active on social media on Tuesday, evidence shared with BBC Verify by dTeam shows.
A lot of social media followers and boosters of right wing persuasion world wide were absent for a short time. A lot of x traffic is bots, that also slowed much to musk’s ire. Not nearly as much as people are joking about, but not nothing.
Sources? The article tries to tell me the contrary.
Here you go.
Did you read the article? It specifically debunks some of those claims.
Your source pretends that all HTTP traffic is caused by bots as in the sense of “manipulative social media bots”. However, Yandex is also a search engine.
One of the posts embedded in your article about the far right AfD in Germany is even directly debunked in the OP article.
Please read the BBC article linked, and possibly provide better sources for your claims, which aren’t based on hearsay or doctored or misinterpreted statistics.
You are accusing me of not reading the article only to come out with further claims you don’t prove yourself. I don’t engage in such a discussion. (And referring to OP: This account is well known in the meantime of spreading pro-China, pro-Russian narratives.)
The article says that the graphs in your link are false. I’m going to trust the BBC over The London Economic. So should you. Until actual evidence comes out that Russain bot activity went down, stop spreading misinformation.