> Russian disinformation influence operations don’t run through Yandex. Instead, they mostly use residential proxies, compromised IoT devices, commercial VPNs and Western cloud hosting.

Can the author of this article perhaps substantiate this claim with a source? Lots of professionals are studying Russian disinfo in the western spheres, I'd be curious to see if any of them concur.

The tracking itself seems to matter less than checking in at regular intervals. A two-minute weekly review beats a perfect system you abandon after a month.

> Second, there is no link between bot traffic and Russian disinformation. The Cloudflare data being held up as bot traffic is mainly search engine crawlers harvesting data.

Two things can be true, Cloudflare's graph can be mostly search engine crawlers, and other traffic could be affected.