@thejournal_ie: A graph shared widely online with the claim it showed a drastic reduction in online activity related to a far-right German political party, following the bombing of Russian data centres last week, is not authentic. In the wake of recent Ukrainian attacks on data centres belonging to the Russian technology company Yandex, social media users and elected officials claimed more generally that there had been a dramatic drop in disinformation and support for far-right political parties online. They claimed that this was because the damage to the data centres had knocked out bots operated by the Russian government. For the full story, visit The Journal's FactCheck section.

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