Have Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centres hit Russian online disinformation?

After recent Ukrainian bombings of Russian data centres belonging to Yandex, internet users claim to have noticed a sharp reduction in pro-Russian and far-right populist social media content. They suggest the reduction is a direct result of the strikes cutting off Russian disinformation “bots”. We examine the claim in this edition of Truth or Fake.

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