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Comment by jrochkind1 | Hacker News Reader

The popular memes that were based on people's assumptions or guesses or stories based on... cloudflare own tweets!

https://x.com/cloudflareradar/status/2108122893028671604

https://x.com/CloudflareRadar/status/2110113211059994638

Which cloudflare also doesn't mention, that their vague and misleading tweet was responsible for these rumors that they are now trying to quash too. Tweets starting October 8th and continuing. That they're getting around to being like, yeah guys that data didn't mean that a week later.

This is how "news" and "facts" work in 2026.

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>The popular memes that were based on people's assumptions or guesses or stories based on... cloudflare own tweets!

???

>"Bot traffic" refers to [...], not necessarily activity on social media platforms.

I guess they could have been more explicit and straight up said "no, that doesn't mean russian trolls are offline", but their tweet isn't ambiguous.

The clarifying tweet you're quoting was posted 5 days after the first tweet.

The first tweet doesn't even mention anything about bots.

I mostly saw the tomshardware.com link being the cause:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russ...

The word "disinformation" doesn't show up in the post, only in the URL.

This was definitely getting shared around Reddit and a majority the comments were drawing assumptions around the headline saying 'bots'. Honestly I made the same mistake until about the third time I saw the headline in a feed and thought "wait, why would social bots be coming from Yandex?"

85k upvotes on /r/technology: "Russian disinformation bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers"

Actual article title: "Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers"

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1x38098/russian...

I don’t see anything vague or misleading about either tweet. I suppose it might be misleading if you don’t know what “bots” means in this context and don’t bother to find out?

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