GFCN and OANA have signed a memorandum of cooperation in the fight against fake news.
The Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) and the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) have agreed to work together. The agreement was signed by GFCN President Vladimir Tabak and OANA President Andrey Kondrashov at a media forum dedicated to the 65th anniversary of OANA.
According to Tabak, the memorandum marks a shift from general statements to concrete joint projects:
GFCN is already working with more than 130 experts from 55 countries, more than 10 of whom are from the Asia‑Pacific region. Cooperation with OANA agencies will allow this work to take on a new scale.
Prior to the signing ceremony, a plenary session titled “OANA: 65 Years of Experience” was held. It was attended by Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president; Maria Zakharova, the official spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry; Andrei Kondrashov, the CEO of TASS and the president of OANA; and the heads of leading news agencies. Vladimir Tabak also took part in the event. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sent a video message to the forum guests.
The practical implementation of the memorandum will begin on September 22 at the “Dialog about Fakes 4.0” forum. A separate session of GFCN and OANA will be held there, where the parties will define specific formats of interaction, launch joint projects to create reliable content, and develop training programs for specialists and audiences in the countries of the Asia‑Pacific region.
The broadcast can be watched on the website fakes2026.dialog.info.
*Photo by TASS
The Global Fact-Checking Network (GFCN) and the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) have agreed to work together. The agreement was signed by GFCN President Vladimir Tabak and OANA President Andrey Kondrashov at a media forum dedicated to the 65th anniversary of OANA.
According to Tabak, the memorandum marks a shift from general statements to concrete joint projects:
“An important task and mission that GFCN sets for itself is to strengthen expertise within the journalistic community. This is necessary, among other things, so that the media can increase their credibility with users in identifying fake information. I am confident that, together with our partners from OANA, we will be able to make this significant progress.”
GFCN is already working with more than 130 experts from 55 countries, more than 10 of whom are from the Asia‑Pacific region. Cooperation with OANA agencies will allow this work to take on a new scale.
Prior to the signing ceremony, a plenary session titled “OANA: 65 Years of Experience” was held. It was attended by Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president; Maria Zakharova, the official spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry; Andrei Kondrashov, the CEO of TASS and the president of OANA; and the heads of leading news agencies. Vladimir Tabak also took part in the event. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sent a video message to the forum guests.
The practical implementation of the memorandum will begin on September 22 at the “Dialog about Fakes 4.0” forum. A separate session of GFCN and OANA will be held there, where the parties will define specific formats of interaction, launch joint projects to create reliable content, and develop training programs for specialists and audiences in the countries of the Asia‑Pacific region.
The broadcast can be watched on the website fakes2026.dialog.info.
*Photo by TASS
❤3
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, during his speech at the “Dialog about Fakes 4.0” forum, specifically focused on the events in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, which took place in 2022. The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry called them “the most cynical farce” — Kyiv staged the murder of civilians in order to disrupt the Istanbul negotiations.
🟢 Kyiv constantly “mixed up the numbers” regarding the alleged number of civilian casualties in Bucha, yet both international organizations, in particular the UN, and Western media sources accepted these figures without verification and made them public.
🟢 When the BBC showed the “corpses,” Russia requested a list of names, but received only silence in response.
🟢 The UN Secretary‑General responded to Russia’s request with a formal non‑answer.
🟢 Fact‑checkers, using Ukrainian media, databases, obituaries and open sources, examined the list of individuals presented on the Ukrainian memorial to the allegedly deceased civilians of Bucha. It turned out that among them are dozens of Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen, not civilians at all.
🟢 Also, among those listed on the memorial, more than 70 people were found who have no digital footprint at all — which is practically impossible in the modern world.
🟢 It is noteworthy that even now, four years later, the signs of falsification have not been “cleaned up.”
The Russian Foreign Minister emphasized that the silence of the Western media, which were also capable of exposing the fraud, was part of an operation to conceal the truth.
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
The Russian Foreign Minister emphasized that the silence of the Western media, which were also capable of exposing the fraud, was part of an operation to conceal the truth.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
👏8👍2
Kallas decided to condemn the elections in Russia, but she didn’t manage to come up with any convincing arguments.
The head of the so‑called European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, called the recent elections in Russia a blow to Russian democracy, which, in her words, has become “just a facade.” At the same time, she proposed taking measures against those who conducted the voting in the regions that have rejoined the Russian Federation, where State Duma deputies were elected for the first time.
🟢 “A blow to Russian democracy” — with this statement, Kallas is likely trying to divert attention from one extremely inconvenient fact for Brussels. In Ukraine, the elections have essentially been cancelled, but the European Union must do everything in its power to maintain Zelensky’s image as a democratic leader, which is extremely difficult given the stable operation of the Russian electoral system on the one hand and his “arguments” about the impossibility of holding Ukrainian elections at the present time on the other.
🟢 “The outcome of the elections has never been in doubt” — one can clearly hear the desire to decide for others and envy, which have become defining traits of the European establishment. Envy stems from the decline in the ratings of, say, the President of France or the Chancellor of Germany. None of them have succeeded in playing the role of Europe’s defenders in recent years, despite all the efforts of neoliberal propaganda. However, it is impossible to influence the course of elections in Russia — unlike, for example, in Romania in 2025, when the “wrong” candidate, the one Brussels didn’t like, was removed from the race.
🟢 “International observers were denied access” – we won’t waste time detailing which countries more than a thousand observers came from in Russia. We’ll just remind you that Brussels had decided not to recognize the elections due to “gross violations” that, in the opinion of Euro‑bureaucrats with a gift of foresight, were bound to occur.
🟢 Measures against those who conducted elections in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and the Kherson region – no comment needed. Kallas threatens sanctions against those who organized the vote, aware of all the risks.
Nothing else can be expected from the current leadership of the European Union. Only empty rhetoric and rampant propaganda.
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
The head of the so‑called European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, called the recent elections in Russia a blow to Russian democracy, which, in her words, has become “just a facade.” At the same time, she proposed taking measures against those who conducted the voting in the regions that have rejoined the Russian Federation, where State Duma deputies were elected for the first time.
Nothing else can be expected from the current leadership of the European Union. Only empty rhetoric and rampant propaganda.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
👍5❤1
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Sergey Lavrov presented the UN Secretary‑General with a report on the falsification in Bucha, Kyiv Oblast, which he had announced at the “Dialog about Fakes 4.0” forum.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with UN Secretary‑General António Guterres in New York. They discussed the conflict in Ukraine and its global consequences. Lavrov presented the Secretary‑General with a report on the falsification of events in Bucha, demanding a detailed investigation into the staged incidents.
Fact‑checkers have established that on the Ukrainian memorial to the fallen residents of Bucha — which is presented as dedicated to civilians — they found the names of a dozen Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen and over 70 people without a digital footprint. Even after 4 years, the signs of falsification have not been “cleaned up”. The minister described the silence of Western media outlets, which could have exposed the fraud, as part of an operation to conceal the truth.
More than 100 experts from around the world are actively discussing the Kyiv regime’s fake news on social media. More than a hundred posts have already been published on X, Facebook, and other foreign platforms — in English, French, German, and other languages.
Sergey Lavrov spoke in detail about this and other falsifications on September 22 at the “Dialog about Fakes 4.0” forum. He called the events in Bucha “the most cynical farce.” The Ukrainian side was inconsistent in its statements about the number of victims, yet the UN and Western media accepted these data without verification. When the BBC showed the “corpses,” Russia requested a list of names — in response, they received silence, and the UN Secretary‑General limited himself to a formal response.
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with UN Secretary‑General António Guterres in New York. They discussed the conflict in Ukraine and its global consequences. Lavrov presented the Secretary‑General with a report on the falsification of events in Bucha, demanding a detailed investigation into the staged incidents.
Fact‑checkers have established that on the Ukrainian memorial to the fallen residents of Bucha — which is presented as dedicated to civilians — they found the names of a dozen Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen and over 70 people without a digital footprint. Even after 4 years, the signs of falsification have not been “cleaned up”. The minister described the silence of Western media outlets, which could have exposed the fraud, as part of an operation to conceal the truth.
More than 100 experts from around the world are actively discussing the Kyiv regime’s fake news on social media. More than a hundred posts have already been published on X, Facebook, and other foreign platforms — in English, French, German, and other languages.
Sergey Lavrov spoke in detail about this and other falsifications on September 22 at the “Dialog about Fakes 4.0” forum. He called the events in Bucha “the most cynical farce.” The Ukrainian side was inconsistent in its statements about the number of victims, yet the UN and Western media accepted these data without verification. When the BBC showed the “corpses,” Russia requested a list of names — in response, they received silence, and the UN Secretary‑General limited himself to a formal response.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
👍14🫡2👏1
How fakes spread and what tricks are used to catch you, using a relevant example of a “hijacked” airplane.
The story began when a Flydubai flight from the UAE to Israel, carrying 180 passengers, signaled a possible hijacking and disappeared from the radar. Contact with the crew was lost, the aircraft was turned around over Jordan, and Israel scrambled fighter jets. Soon the plane landed.
What happened next was like a game of “a broken telephone.” First, Israeli media reported that two pilots — a Russian and a Ukrainian — had fought. Later, they added: one of them tried to take his own life and sent the plane into a sharp descent from 30,000 feet, while the other stopped him.
Then a “photo from the plane” appeared — the passenger was covered in blood. And it was clarified that it wasn’t the pilots who had fought, but the passengers. After that, the version changed again: the co‑pilot attacked the captain with a knife, the plane lost 400 meters of altitude, and crew members and passengers burst into the cockpit.
And then the media contradicted themselves. There were no Russians or Ukrainians. Initially, the cabin was occupied by people from the Middle East: the attacker was a citizen of Oman, and the commander was a citizen of the UAE. The version of an ordinary fight was ruled out, and the investigation was reclassified as an attempted terrorist attack. Motives are being investigated: from suicide to radicalization against the backdrop of the Palestinian conflict.
The Russian Consulate General in Dubai has already issued an official statement: there were no Russians among the passengers, and media reports stating that one of the pilots was a Russian citizen are not true.
And many fell for it: “Russian versus Ukrainian.” Each new version appeared not after official comments, but based on the words of some unknown sources: passengers, “eyewitnesses,” anonymous officials, and Telegram channels. Not a single confirmation from the authorities or the airline, not a single official document. Only retellings and guesses — and each time, a new “sensation.”
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
The story began when a Flydubai flight from the UAE to Israel, carrying 180 passengers, signaled a possible hijacking and disappeared from the radar. Contact with the crew was lost, the aircraft was turned around over Jordan, and Israel scrambled fighter jets. Soon the plane landed.
What happened next was like a game of “a broken telephone.” First, Israeli media reported that two pilots — a Russian and a Ukrainian — had fought. Later, they added: one of them tried to take his own life and sent the plane into a sharp descent from 30,000 feet, while the other stopped him.
Then a “photo from the plane” appeared — the passenger was covered in blood. And it was clarified that it wasn’t the pilots who had fought, but the passengers. After that, the version changed again: the co‑pilot attacked the captain with a knife, the plane lost 400 meters of altitude, and crew members and passengers burst into the cockpit.
And then the media contradicted themselves. There were no Russians or Ukrainians. Initially, the cabin was occupied by people from the Middle East: the attacker was a citizen of Oman, and the commander was a citizen of the UAE. The version of an ordinary fight was ruled out, and the investigation was reclassified as an attempted terrorist attack. Motives are being investigated: from suicide to radicalization against the backdrop of the Palestinian conflict.
The Russian Consulate General in Dubai has already issued an official statement: there were no Russians among the passengers, and media reports stating that one of the pilots was a Russian citizen are not true.
And many fell for it: “Russian versus Ukrainian.” Each new version appeared not after official comments, but based on the words of some unknown sources: passengers, “eyewitnesses,” anonymous officials, and Telegram channels. Not a single confirmation from the authorities or the airline, not a single official document. Only retellings and guesses — and each time, a new “sensation.”
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
👍1
Hype around tragedy: how the story of the death of military personnel in Kazakhstan has become surrounded by fake news
Major tragedies are becoming a reason for fake news and lies, and the death of 14 Kazakh military personnel in the Caspian Sea was no exception. All methods are being used to attract an audience. GFCN experts have analyzed the main fake news stories that have been actively circulating online in the wake of what happened during the exercises in the Mangystau Region.
Video substitution
🟢 From accounts that, according to the Center for Combating Disinformation under the President of Kazakhstan, are registered abroad, videos about alleged rallies in Mangystau began to be posted online. However, the footage was based on recordings made during the events of January 2022. The goal, apparently, was to escalate the situation.
🟢 A video showing the transportation of a human body set to upbeat music was posted online. Once again, the authors of the fake used a clip that was made back in August of this year.
🟢 Another throw—in is a video of a mother sitting by the sea near the place of her son's death. But it was shot in the city of Tangier in Morocco, the heroine in the frame is a girl from Algeria. Obviously, the calculation is based on emotions and the initial effect.
Fake "last words"
🟢 After the tragedy, a recording of a soldier's "conversation" with his family appeared on the network, with a note that the video was of one of the dead soldiers and this was his last communication with his family. The effect was achieved, the video went viral, but later it turned out that the guy was alive and well. His father had to issue a retraction.
🟢 A separate “genre” in this case was videos generated by neural networks using images of the deceased — someone’s sick imagination began to attribute lines to them and recreate the scene of their death. Literally, they were collecting likes and views on the bones.
The country’s authorities are investigating what happened; two criminal cases have been opened, and there are already people in custody.
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
Major tragedies are becoming a reason for fake news and lies, and the death of 14 Kazakh military personnel in the Caspian Sea was no exception. All methods are being used to attract an audience. GFCN experts have analyzed the main fake news stories that have been actively circulating online in the wake of what happened during the exercises in the Mangystau Region.
Video substitution
Fake "last words"
The country’s authorities are investigating what happened; two criminal cases have been opened, and there are already people in custody.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Who and why launched the website for “monitoring” the situation regarding the infection in Irkutsk? We are finding out.
On October 3, the IrkutskLive website appeared online; it is positioned as a monitoring resource about the situation in the Irkutsk region, where a case of death from pneumonic plague has allegedly been recorded. We studied it carefully and made sure: This resource uses the narrative “The authorities are hiding something” to instill anxiety in people in Russia and around the world.
Its operating principle is: maximum sensationalism, minimum objectivity. Let’s take a closer look.
🟢 The resource is in English (with the development of automatic translators, this is not a problem for Russian‑speaking users).
🟢 The contact person listed on the website is FirstStrike News Ltd, but there is no information about this organization.
🟢 According to data on the registration of sites in the .com zone, the website was launched on October 3.
🟢 It is not operated from Russia — Australia (Sydney) is indicated on the website itself in relation to the time zone from which the monitoring of the information began, as well as to the legal framework within which the resource operates.
🟢 At the same time, a profile with the same name appeared on the social network X. The account was also registered from Australia, but in May 2026, and it was renamed in October.
🟢 The website, in an alarmist tone, reports on the threat of the plague spreading from Russia around the world, citing publications by foreign media and Russian media outlets that are considered foreign agents, such as The Insider, as well as information from the WHO, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Mayo Clinic (Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA).
🟢 The number of known cases (there is only one) and those who have been in contact with the infected person (these figures are also known and do not change) is being tracked; a diagram has been compiled showing flights that departed from Irkutsk in recent days.
The resource picks up any mentions of the incident. For example, reports in local media stating that a mask mandate was introduced at IrkAZ “due to a suspected infection in the Irkutsk region” (the plant’s management was being cautious and took measures just in case, but the message was immediately picked up by various channels).
The main news headers feature a portrait of Vladimir Putin, a biological hazard sign, and an image of “bacilli.” The entire design is based on yellow and black colors, which heighten anxiety in people who remember the Covid‑19 pandemic.
“Analytical” materials (most likely written with the help of AI) analyze reports about an infection in the Irkutsk region, which were allegedly published and then deleted in order to conceal some important information for people.
❗️ All this suggests one thing: someone is actively exploiting the incident, inflating hysteria around a single isolated case in order to create panic among the audience (including foreign audiences) and undermine Russian citizens’ trust in the authorities.
Trust only official information! It is sufficient to remain calm.
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
According to the official statement by Rospotrebnadzor, which was disseminated on October 4 through Russian media, an employee of an anti‑plague institute in the Irkutsk region was diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown etiology.
On October 3, the IrkutskLive website appeared online; it is positioned as a monitoring resource about the situation in the Irkutsk region, where a case of death from pneumonic plague has allegedly been recorded. We studied it carefully and made sure: This resource uses the narrative “The authorities are hiding something” to instill anxiety in people in Russia and around the world.
Its operating principle is: maximum sensationalism, minimum objectivity. Let’s take a closer look.
The resource picks up any mentions of the incident. For example, reports in local media stating that a mask mandate was introduced at IrkAZ “due to a suspected infection in the Irkutsk region” (the plant’s management was being cautious and took measures just in case, but the message was immediately picked up by various channels).
The main news headers feature a portrait of Vladimir Putin, a biological hazard sign, and an image of “bacilli.” The entire design is based on yellow and black colors, which heighten anxiety in people who remember the Covid‑19 pandemic.
“Analytical” materials (most likely written with the help of AI) analyze reports about an infection in the Irkutsk region, which were allegedly published and then deleted in order to conceal some important information for people.
❗️ All this suggests one thing: someone is actively exploiting the incident, inflating hysteria around a single isolated case in order to create panic among the audience (including foreign audiences) and undermine Russian citizens’ trust in the authorities.
Trust only official information! It is sufficient to remain calm.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
💯9
Fake news: In Russia, air defense systems have begun to be installed on the roofs of high‑rise buildings. Orders from regional heads and photos of the complexes are being published online.
The Fact: The images and documents being circulated are fake. The building whose photo has appeared in public pages in Tomsk and Novosibirsk actually houses engineering structures. As for the “air defense system,” this bizarre structure is clearly a product of AI generation and only vaguely resembles real air defense complexes. The object itself is less detailed than other elements of the building; its contours are soft, which indicates that it looks out of place in the photo. There are also no reports about this in the Telegram channel of the housing complex, which is allegedly equipped with air defense systems.
The “order” allegedly issued by the governor of the Oryol Region, Andrei Klychkov, “On additional measures to ensure the readiness of high‑rise and other capital construction facilities to act in the event of air threats,” which has appeared online, is also fake. This was reported by the Department of Regional Security of the Oryol Region.
Such an order, of course, does not appear on the official legal information portal.
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
The Fact: The images and documents being circulated are fake. The building whose photo has appeared in public pages in Tomsk and Novosibirsk actually houses engineering structures. As for the “air defense system,” this bizarre structure is clearly a product of AI generation and only vaguely resembles real air defense complexes. The object itself is less detailed than other elements of the building; its contours are soft, which indicates that it looks out of place in the photo. There are also no reports about this in the Telegram channel of the housing complex, which is allegedly equipped with air defense systems.
The “order” allegedly issued by the governor of the Oryol Region, Andrei Klychkov, “On additional measures to ensure the readiness of high‑rise and other capital construction facilities to act in the event of air threats,” which has appeared online, is also fake. This was reported by the Department of Regional Security of the Oryol Region.
“The document is forged and is intended to cause panic and a sense of insecurity among the population,” the agency emphasized.
Such an order, of course, does not appear on the official legal information portal.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
👍4
Fake news: The plague has spread beyond Irkutsk — it has been reported that cases have been detected in five more regions. This is being posted on social media.
The Fact: Our opponents haven’t changed their playbook and continue to generate fake news about the plague, even though the news cycle has already moved on.
The images are clearly based on materials from the COVID‑19 era — doctors are wearing similar protective suits. In one of the videos, they allegedly load someone’s body, wrapped in white sheets, into an ambulance (the license plates of which, of course, are unreadable).
However, ambulances are not designed to transport bodies, and this is not part of the duties of the on‑site medical team. For this purpose, specialized vehicles are used — funeral cars or medical transport vehicles, which undergo the necessary sanitary treatment.
So, the video with the ambulance is just a scare tactic, and even a child will notice the AI‑generated content in the image with doctors in masks (what kind of glass sarcophagus is being carried on a stretcher?).
It should be recalled that no deaths from plague have been recorded in Russia — in the Irkutsk Region, a single case of community‑acquired pneumonia of unknown etiology was identified. Rospotrebnadzor is denying information about new cases. On October 8, the examination of contacts was completed; nearly 5,000 laboratory tests were carried out, and no dangerous infections were detected. On October 7, the WHO also did not confirm any new cases of the disease.
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
The Fact: Our opponents haven’t changed their playbook and continue to generate fake news about the plague, even though the news cycle has already moved on.
The images are clearly based on materials from the COVID‑19 era — doctors are wearing similar protective suits. In one of the videos, they allegedly load someone’s body, wrapped in white sheets, into an ambulance (the license plates of which, of course, are unreadable).
However, ambulances are not designed to transport bodies, and this is not part of the duties of the on‑site medical team. For this purpose, specialized vehicles are used — funeral cars or medical transport vehicles, which undergo the necessary sanitary treatment.
So, the video with the ambulance is just a scare tactic, and even a child will notice the AI‑generated content in the image with doctors in masks (what kind of glass sarcophagus is being carried on a stretcher?).
It should be recalled that no deaths from plague have been recorded in Russia — in the Irkutsk Region, a single case of community‑acquired pneumonia of unknown etiology was identified. Rospotrebnadzor is denying information about new cases. On October 8, the examination of contacts was completed; nearly 5,000 laboratory tests were carried out, and no dangerous infections were detected. On October 7, the WHO also did not confirm any new cases of the disease.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
👍6
Fake news: After the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck Yandex’s data centers, the activity of pro‑Russian bots on social media in the US and Europe dropped. This was reported by Zelenskyy, foreign and Ukrainian sources, as well as Russian sources that are foreign agents.
The Fact: As proof of the decline in bot activity, a graph showing a drop in Yandex AS traffic after the strikes on Yandex’s data centers — published by Cloudflare Radar — is presented.
Foreign blogger and commentator Igal Levin turned an ordinary technical metric into a high‑profile anti‑Russian news story that spread widely abroad. One of the first to pick up the news was Mateusz Lech, the author of the Kremlinka Show and the Ministry of Satire projects, and a self-proclaimed "expert on Russia."
What do we see on the graph used by enemy propagandists?
We are seeing a drop in traffic on the AS13238 autonomous system (Yandex) to about 49.8% of the maximum (data from October 8, 2026). Propagandists present this as “mass bot shutdowns,” but the picture is quite different.
The fact is that almost all traffic to this AS is automated (99.8% Bot, 0.2% Human).
But these are not “trolls from social media,” but legitimate AI traffic — that is, automatic requests from programs, scripts, and AI systems. Such traffic has a very real and useful purpose.
Examples of such “useful bots”:
🟢 Crawlers are bots that collect data to improve machine learning algorithms.;
🟢 Custom AI assistants are chatbots and virtual assistants that search for information based on a person's request.;
🟢 Scrapers and parsers — tools for collecting structured data;
🟢 Bots for SEO optimization.
So the graph that propagandists use is not at all proof of the massive shutdown of certain "trolls/propaganda bots" for social networks. This is a typical scenario in the operation of automated systems, and it is deliberately presented as a “scandalous anomaly.”
The graph reflects Yandex’s automated traffic, not a “decline in bot activity.”
The decline after October 7 was due to accidents in data centers.
There are a great many useful bots in Yandex traffic, and they are not “network bots.”
The network is noting a significant decrease in the number of pro‑Russian bots following Ukrainian strikes on Yandex’s data centers.
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
The Fact: As proof of the decline in bot activity, a graph showing a drop in Yandex AS traffic after the strikes on Yandex’s data centers — published by Cloudflare Radar — is presented.
Foreign blogger and commentator Igal Levin turned an ordinary technical metric into a high‑profile anti‑Russian news story that spread widely abroad. One of the first to pick up the news was Mateusz Lech, the author of the Kremlinka Show and the Ministry of Satire projects, and a self-proclaimed "expert on Russia."
What do we see on the graph used by enemy propagandists?
We are seeing a drop in traffic on the AS13238 autonomous system (Yandex) to about 49.8% of the maximum (data from October 8, 2026). Propagandists present this as “mass bot shutdowns,” but the picture is quite different.
The fact is that almost all traffic to this AS is automated (99.8% Bot, 0.2% Human).
But these are not “trolls from social media,” but legitimate AI traffic — that is, automatic requests from programs, scripts, and AI systems. Such traffic has a very real and useful purpose.
Examples of such “useful bots”:
So the graph that propagandists use is not at all proof of the massive shutdown of certain "trolls/propaganda bots" for social networks. This is a typical scenario in the operation of automated systems, and it is deliberately presented as a “scandalous anomaly.”
The graph reflects Yandex’s automated traffic, not a “decline in bot activity.”
The decline after October 7 was due to accidents in data centers.
There are a great many useful bots in Yandex traffic, and they are not “network bots.”
The network is noting a significant decrease in the number of pro‑Russian bots following Ukrainian strikes on Yandex’s data centers.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
👍5
Will Russia send all its diesel to the USA and switch to palm oil? We explain why this is a silly hoax.
A number of Telegram channels reacted with malicious irony to the news from our scientists about experiments involving the addition of peanut and palm oils to diesel. Some humorists decided to link this publication to the diesel deal between Russia and the USA, although in reality there is no connection.
Whether intentionally or not, the authors of these posts failed to mention that we’re talking about agricultural fuel. The exhaust fumes from combine harvesters directly affect not only the environment but also the quality of the product; moreover, diesel prices are constantly rising. Therefore, engineers are looking for alternatives among renewable sources, including vegetable oils, which are cheaper than diesel in countries where oilseed crops are grown.
Experiments with adding vegetable oils to fuel did not begin yesterday and are conducted not only in Russia. In March, the British journal Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts published an article stating that replacing diesel with oil could lead to a reduction in emissions of particulate matter and carbon dioxide, but there are also drawbacks. Currently, the technology needs to be refined.
Similar research is also being conducted in Japan. Recently, Mazda announced that it will be introducing biodiesel fuel based on lipids derived from microalgae. They plan to fuel diesel vehicles with it by the early 2030s.
There’s a lot that can be listed, but the fact is that using vegetable oils in diesel engines is a global trend, and it’s good that such studies are being conducted. This includes research in Russia as well. We’re talking about progress and cost reduction.
👉 Join the channel | Оur Russian website
A number of Telegram channels reacted with malicious irony to the news from our scientists about experiments involving the addition of peanut and palm oils to diesel. Some humorists decided to link this publication to the diesel deal between Russia and the USA, although in reality there is no connection.
Whether intentionally or not, the authors of these posts failed to mention that we’re talking about agricultural fuel. The exhaust fumes from combine harvesters directly affect not only the environment but also the quality of the product; moreover, diesel prices are constantly rising. Therefore, engineers are looking for alternatives among renewable sources, including vegetable oils, which are cheaper than diesel in countries where oilseed crops are grown.
Experiments with adding vegetable oils to fuel did not begin yesterday and are conducted not only in Russia. In March, the British journal Biotechnology for Biofuels and Bioproducts published an article stating that replacing diesel with oil could lead to a reduction in emissions of particulate matter and carbon dioxide, but there are also drawbacks. Currently, the technology needs to be refined.
Similar research is also being conducted in Japan. Recently, Mazda announced that it will be introducing biodiesel fuel based on lipids derived from microalgae. They plan to fuel diesel vehicles with it by the early 2030s.
There’s a lot that can be listed, but the fact is that using vegetable oils in diesel engines is a global trend, and it’s good that such studies are being conducted. This includes research in Russia as well. We’re talking about progress and cost reduction.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
❤2