{"id":48117,"date":"2026-10-16T19:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48117"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:33:26","slug":"drone-strikes-didnt-take-out-a-russian-bot-farm-but-we-were-primed-to-believe-it-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48117","title":{"rendered":"Drone Strikes Didn\u2019t Take Out a Russian Bot Farm, But We Were Primed to Believe It\u00a0 \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A viral rumor illustrates people\u2019s hunger to make sense of the division we see online.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20261013-zelenskyy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7806116424607392;width:230px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/10\/ukraine-drone-strike-yandex-russian-bot-farm-right-wing-maga-afd-reform-uk-conspiracy-theory-viral-rumor\/\">Drone Strikes Didn\u2019t Take Out a Russian Bot Farm, But We Were Primed to Believe It&nbsp; \u2013 Mother Jones<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m sorry to burst everyone\u2019s bubble, but as of now, there is no solid evidence that Russian bot farms have become inactive due to the Yandex data centre strikes,\u201d agreed Vatnik Soup, another group that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/P_Kallioniemi?lang=en\">monitors<\/a> Russian government-backed disinformation. \u201cThis doesn\u2019t mean the strikes haven\u2019t had an effect, but no one has demonstrated it with solid data so far,\u201d the account added. \u201cMany users have reported seeing fewer pro-Kremlin posts and replies since the strikes, and some automated pro-Russian and pro-MAGA accounts have reportedly gone silent. But this could simply be a coincidence.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A viral rumor illustrates people\u2019s hunger to make sense of the division&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48117"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48124,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48117\/revisions\/48124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}