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In public discourse, 'Russian bots' usually refers to coordinated inauthentic behavior on social media, such as Twitter political propaganda accounts and Facebook disinformation dissemination networks, whose traffic characteristics are completely different from the infrastructure-level bot traffic monitored by Cloudflare.
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