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Did “Russian bot traffic” really disappear after Ukrainian strikes on Yandex servers?
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2026
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And it makes perfect sense that before reading this many people felt that they clearly see Russian bots vanishing.
Human psychology is just not equipped for open Web. Especially social media kind of it. F2F and personal webpages and circles of friends are fine, but anything crowd-related is worse than sending pigeons.