Attack on Russian data center caused social media drop?

At the same time, all Sberbank systems and services are operating normally," Alexander Vedyakhin, First Deputy Chairman of Sberbank’s Executive Board told reporters following the overnight attack. However, Russian outage-monitoring services reported a surge in complaints from Sberbank users across the country, citing problems with the bank’s application and access to accounts.

Ukrainian attacks on data centres of tech giant Yandex have thrown key facets of Russian daily life into turmoil, disrupting services ranging from email and taxi apps to dating sites and electronic key fobs for Moscow apartment buildings.

The claim that Ukrainian strikes on Russian bot farms caused right-wing or MAGA social media activity to decrease is unproven.

According to Josef Holnburger, managing director of the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy (CeMAS), there is currently "no decline in Russian disinformation activities that could be explained by the attack on Yandex data centers."

Did Ukrainian strikes on Yandex silence Russian bots? The evidence doesn’t show it, and shrinking data access makes it harder to check.

No major fact-checking or disinformation-monitoring organizations reported a radical drop in Russian disinformation activity on social media, though some European officials echoed the claims.

In the past week, Ukraine has struck ... Russia's version of Google. A widely shared graph of data from US tech firm Cloudflare showed a sharp drop-off for bot traffic shortly after one of the strikes....

A wave of attacks against the Russian internet giant Yandex has sent shockwaves across the country in recent days and caused major disruptions to daily life.

It appeared to show a drop in bot activity from Yandex following the attacks. The result has been an epic internet mess, pulling in everyday users, political scientists, Elon Musk and social media experts.