Ukrainian drones can’t stop Putin’s propaganda machine

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LBC's Fraser Knight takes a deep dive into the Russian data centre struck by a Ukrainian drone, and the suggestion that it could down the Kremlin's army of bots. Kyiv's drone attacks on tech giant Yandex's data centres have been followed by a significant reduction in automated online traffic. The strikes have fuelled speculation online that Russian bots are behind activity favourable towards far-right political parties. But this may have just been the result of the specific data centre's information going offline. The company - which is heavily involved in Russia's AI development and is sometimes called "Russia's Google" - was forced to suspend some of its services after three of its data centres were attacked in the last few days. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that the country's strikes had led social media to become less hostile. Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum, he said: "When we started responding to Russia's operation against our data centres an

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