Reports circulating online in recent days claimed that Ukraine struck a Russian server farm, causing large numbers of Russian bots to disappear. As a result, the reports said, there was a dramatic drop in popular anti-Western phrases, among them "genocide" and "Free Palestine". But antisemitic messages are still being spread.
Ukraine struck servers belonging to the Russian company Yandex last week, damaging the site's functionality and operations. In practice, the drop in Russian bot volume came from the fact that Yandex's "crawlers", bots used to find content on the web so it appears in search results for users, were disabled following the damage to the company's servers.
