{"id":10661,"date":"2026-10-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/?post_type=exmediatt&p=10661"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:52:49","slug":"destroyed-data-centers-silence-massive-russian-bot-farms-as-putin-loses-leverage-over-europe","status":"publish","type":"exmediatt","link":"https:\/\/johanno1.se\/en\/media-tt\/destroyed-data-centers-silence-massive-russian-bot-farms-as-putin-loses-leverage-over-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroyed data centers silence massive Russian bot farms as Putin loses leverage over Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today the biggest news is coming from the Russian net. Here the Russian bot farms have just gone completely silent, as Russia's massive disinformation and manipulation network online was reduced to zero. Zelensky recently stated that following Ukrainian strikes on three of Russia's nine largest data centers, a noticeable drop in bot activity was recorded across social media. These claims are confirmed by Cloudflare, one of the largest companies providing internet services. They have released statistics showing that known Russian bot traffic coming from the Russian side of the internet dropped to 0.4% after the Ukrainian strikes, from a staggering 84.5% before.<\/p>\n

This means that essentially Russia's information warfare in the online space has grown to a halt. The impact of this is visibly noticeable. Online activity relating to political parties in the West has experienced a notable drop. Statistics from independent fact checkers in Germany, for example, show an across-the-board drop in mentions of all political parties online by between 20 and 37%.<\/p>\n

Countries across the West are experiencing similar trends, while wider claims on certain extremist parties' online activity, experiencing extreme drops of up to 86%, remain unconfirmed. The main thing that the confirmed and fact check statistics show is that Russia has an intense and ongoing campaign across the world to influence political debate. How this frequently works is that certain bots make extremist posts and false claims online in order to invoke a response and spread misinformation on important subjects.<\/p>\n

Other bots pretending to be voters from both sides of the political spectrum then pretend to argue with each other, hoping to bait real people into interacting with the false premise, which in turn boosts its visibility to other real people. This is how Russia creates extreme political and social divide in the countries that oppose it fundamentally. It is no wonder, therefore, that when Zelensky stated that there was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations in the online space following the Ukrainian strikes, he spoke the truth. Importantly, Russia does not only use its disinformation bot network against the West, but Ukraine has become a massive target as well.<\/p>\n

Ukraine's new commander-in-chief Mikhailo Drapatye recently stated that coordinated information attacks against him began from his first days in office, as has been the case against the Ukrainian army and government since the start of the war. Through this, Russia attempts to sow social distrust and unrest in Ukraine, as the determination of Ukrainians against the Russian invasion is what allowed the country to hold on against Russia for so long.<\/p>\n

Overall, Russia actively seeks to break the will of Ukrainians and their Western allies at a massive scale. That scale, however, has been reduced by an equally massive scale after Ukraine hit and destroyed three of Russia's nine largest data centers that allowed the bot networks to run day and night. With the information space having been much cleared up in recent days, it is important to remember how Russia's game of dividing and conquering must not be allowed to succeed, as Russia's crimes against humanity in Ukraine are something that all people truly oppose.<\/p>\n

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