Ukraine just gifted the world a million fewer bots and trolls amplifying MAGA, criticizing Ukraine, loving Musk, calling climate change a hoax, criticizing vaccines, pumping up fascism in Brazil, Germany, the UK and France. This is thè world without fake fascist noise.
Ukraine just hit another Yandex data center inside Russia, and Cloudflare data shows automated traffic coming from Yandex’s network has collapsed to roughly 0.4% of its recent peak.
For some perspective, researchers have previously estimated that bots generated roughly 21–29% of U.S. Twitter content.
With the U.S. midterms just weeks away, the timing is pretty interesting.