Kevin Beaumont on Nostr: The Yandex decrease in threat activity narrative was a nonsense peddled by the ...
The Yandex decrease in threat activity narrative was a nonsense peddled by the Ukrainian government. People confuse legit search engine bots with social media bots.
Russian propaganda operations don’t run from Yandex. They never have. I deal with them all the time on Mastodon. There was no dip.
It’s a reminder that wars have propaganda - and the propaganda was coming from Ukraine this time.
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