Ukraine Knocked Out Russia's Biggest Data Centers, and the Internet Got 17% Betterhttps://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/10/13/ukraine-knocked-out-a-russian-data-center-and-the-internet-got-17-better-n4958256"What happened to my trolls?" my old social media buddy Chris Loesch asked late Tuesday night on X. "Something happen to the bot farms?"
Maybe. But only maybe.
Following a series of drone hits on Russian data centers — fascinating details below — early reports indicated that Russian propaganda bot farms had gone dark.
"Funny thing," Ohio Rob posted on Sunday, "Ukraine takes out Russian data centers and 'Zelensky' rises while 'genocide' and 'Free Palestine' drops off according to X’s Radar analytics page."
"All the rabid pro-pals [Palestinians] are very, very quiet," another poster added. "Funny that."
Russian servers playing host to Palestinian propaganda bots? Say it isn't so.
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To keep things fair and balanced, internet security expert Lukasz Olejnik strongly disagreed, calling it a "dangerous misconception" that the bot farms were taken out. "Those bots are mostly Yandex's own search crawlers, not the info-ops social media accounts. Troll farms hide behind proxies, hijacked devices and Western clouds. They're still operating."
For whatever reason, I've seen many fewer Pro-Iran troll-posts on FB the last several days.
