Five or six days ago this page “Anthony Albanese Prime Minister of Australia” on Facebook - which is clearly being run and moderated entirely by foreign accounts - was publishing the usual rage bait and attempting to engage in the posts to keep its numbers up - with reasonable success. Five or six days ago the engagement was profoundly different - with angry shitposting under the original clickbaiting posts and a cacophony of angry “people” tearing into Labor, Albo and anything remotely government oriented. For the last two or three days this page has continued to exist - despite my attempts to get it shut down in the past - but the tone of the responses has changed markedly. The responses to the original clickbait posts challenges the rhetoric, is more positive and is backing the government - or is less combative and more reasonable. It’s like all the negativity, the haters, the angst and the fear mongering has lost traction - despite the same foreign page creators posting the same clickbaiting shyte. 🤔 Poof! Just like that.. the tone of the page is missing its key ingredient… angry, largely anonymous people behind locked accounts saying relatively dumbass angry things. Could an interesting majority of these so-called page participants and their commentary have originated from a bot farm in a now obliterated data centre in Rusky land? Is it a hard ask to imagine that Rusky land global misinformation, deepfakes and lies - and all of their worldwide internet tentacles have been directly affecting right-wing and populist agendas through social media algorithms and demographics in targeted countries - even here? On 8th October 2026, the first Ukrainian drone strike hit a Yandex data centre in Sasovo - suspending operations. On 9th October 2026, a second Ukrainian drone strike targeted a Yandex facility in Kaluga - southwest of Moscow. Operations were completely suspended. On 11th October 2026, a third Ukrainian drone strike damaged a Yandex data centre in the Vladimir region - also completely suspending operations at that site. Today is 13th October. It’s five days since the first drone strike. Three to five days of fkn peace and enlightenment. The spaces we once occupied in the world before the Internet are different now. We are no longer separated by distance, we occupy the same spaces online as someone on the other side of the world. Our version of space is no longer physical - our perceptions and our psychological spaces are now up for grabs. Do you really think that they couldn’t do it? Or wouldn’t?

The recent Ukrainian drone strikes that shut down 3 out of 5 major Rusky data centres has become interesting insofar that it has drawn attention to something quite insidious. The strike has disrupted AI infrastructure, cloud platforms & everyday digital services. Not great news for the Ruskies, to be sure - & certainly not great news for their misinformation & propaganda management facilities - but depending on what side of the spectrum you are on - it’s enlightening. The drone strike damaged Yandex facilities in Kuluga, Sasovo & Vladimir - & severely disrupted online misinformation by crippling the physical infrastructure & AI supercomputers used to generate &automate state-backed propaganda. “Data tracking from platforms like Cloudflare revealed that immediately following the strikes, Rusky bot traffic on the web plummeted to just 0.4% of its recent peak - effectively choking off foreign troll operations in the short term”. It’s interesting that bot traffic plummets on the web after Russia loses over half of their data centres. Furthermore .. “Most modern misinformation relies on vast automated bot networks to artificially amplify FAKE narratives on platforms like X, TikTok & Facebook. Because the targeted Yandex data hubs hosted substantial cloud infrastructure, taking them offline directly severed the connection to thousands of coordinated bot accounts. Security researchers noted that this structural damage forces an immediate drop-off in the sheer volume of spam and coordinated influence campaigns globally” “Kremlin-backed influence groups (such as Storm-1516 or the Doppelgänger network) heavily utilize artificial intelligence to create cheap deepfakes, clone news websites, and manipulate text at scale. (The Guardian) The strike on the Sasovo facility specifically targeted a hub housing two of Yandex’s three AI supercomputers used to train advanced language models.(BBC) Without the high-performance computing power needed to render deepfakes & generate automated, localized fake news articles in real-time, the Kremlin’s ability to run advanced, AI-driven campaigns is significantly throttled (BBC). A hidden front of online misinformation is LLM grooming - where Russian networks flood the open web with millions of pro-Kremlin articles to intentionally poison the data scraped by Western AI chatbots (like ChatGPT or Gemini). Over 80 digital and cloud services were forced completely offline by these strikes. By bringing down these networks and their hosting infrastructure, Ukraine has paused the generation of the "poisoned" data that chatbots accidentally cite as fact” 🙄🤔 While these strikes may not permanently eliminate Russia’s decentralised cyber-warfare capabilities - they’ve dealt a blow to the scale, the automation and the speed at which online misinformation can be deployed globally. It has also drawn attention to just how much Russia has been involved in global cyber propaganda and how much they have been interfering in foreign affairs through manipulation via social media platforms globally. I’m pretty sure this is the tip of the iceberg. Russia have been doing shyte like this for a very long time and they are very good at it. Those who control the dissemination of information control the world - regardless of whether that information is actually true or not. The Russians over the last few decades have developed that into an art form. For the most part, online social media platforms accommodate the massive amount of manipulation of information, misinformation and lies - and those who participate on these online platforms are either the protagonists or the victims. It is sickening to see just how much information is manipulated and just how many people are being manipulated. People might want to take a really good look at what is really going on. The Russian-bot mantra is not a fairy story. Let’s see if this post gets any traction with the algorithms. It certainly won’t with the bots today.