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      <title>Viral Russian "bot drop" after Yandex data centre strikes mostly reflects Yandex crawlers</title>
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      <description>After Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres, charts of falling Russian bot traffic spread on social media. The Independent and The Verge both say the data mainly shows Yandex's own crawlers going offline, not fewer social media bots. (4 outlets: 4 left · 0 centre · 0 right)</description>
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