Drone strikes didn’t take out a Russian bot farm, but we were primed to believe it

The empirical data shows a big decline in Russian bot activity overall. You see it on Twitter already. The strikes took down web crawlers and we saw that graph go down, but the spin of it was all just crawlers falls short of actually explaining a lot of what we’re seeing now. The ‘Amazon’ of Russia, probably didn’t keep any kind-of graph to show how their social media twitter bots are running public facing. Now the lie that it was all web crawlers has done it’s lap, and we’re all going to argue about this a little while longer.