Ukraine is targeting Russian data centers to shut down online war propaganda

By attacking servers and digital centers, Ukraine is trying to stop the spread of Russian internet bots and misinformation.

Ukraine is now taking the war into the digital world. They are hitting Russian data centers—the big buildings filled with computers that power the internet—to stop Russian bots. Russian bots are computer programs that act like real people online. They spread lies and fake news to trick people and cause trouble. By attacking the physical places where these programs live, Ukraine hopes to turn the lights out on these propaganda machines. But this plan has some hitches. Experts from Cloudflare, a company that helps run the internet, say that when these sites go down, the bots don't just disap…