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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...

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