10/14/2026
If you feel like the social media has been a little lighter, a little more human, and a little more fun this week, you’re not imagining it.
Ukraine bombed a Russian Yandex Data Center on October 10, and data released in the following days showed a STEEP drop in bot activity across the web.
This isn’t to say that bots aren’t active in data centers elsewhere, or that we’ll be free of that level of bot activity for long. But I think it’s a good reminder to all of us that SO MUCH of what we see online is intentionally manufactured to enrage, provoke, and divide us.
It’s hard work to stay human in an increasingly artificial digital landscape, but it’s arguably the MOST IMPORTANT work we can do 🧡