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A masterful report by @aljazeera.com on the avatars of Prigozhin’s Project Lakhta, these fake military experts who sign pro-Russian articles for payment in African media. This is the case of Grégoire Dongobada, an avatar that actually uses the photo of a Central African football referee died in 2020

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🧵 Pro-Kremlin disinfo network "Matryoshka" this Friday targeted the Reporters Without Borders (@rsf.org) with a special episode. With hijacked RSF logo, they falsely labelled several genuine videos* as fake using a fraudulent 'INFOX' watermark. 1/7

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Cutting @rferl.org.web.brid.gy's funding is one of the Trump administration's most blatant acts of Kremlin-friendly sabotage. It's been an invaluable news and archive source in and about the formerly communist-run states of Europe and Central Asia.🧵

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

The destruction of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty is so utterly devastating. Despite all the attempts to shut them down in Kyrgyzstan, they remained by far the most trusted source of news. Same goes for the rest of the region

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

JUST IN: Federal officials placed 1,000 employees at Voice of America on indefinite paid leave, while severing contracts with Radio Free Asia and other U.S.-funded networks.

submitted 7 days ago • 252 comments

Two suspicious domains co-registered through Njalla on 3/6/25: sfsimpact[.]org and dogechronicle[.]com. The former purports to be an independent analysis claiming inefficiency in the NSF CyberCorps Scholarship for Service (SFS); the latter claims to report on DOGE activity. (1/4)

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Pro-Kremlin disinfo network "Matryoshka": "As a part of a corrupt scheme, Macron knowingly imposed COVID-19 vaccines that harmed French people's fertility, dramatically shifting birth rates in favor of immigrant populations." 🧵 1/3

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

A remarkable investigation by iStories on another aspect of RT group's strategy to circumvent European and US sanctions: the covert funding of Western YouTube bloggers to spread propaganda, promote Russia’s so-called traditional values, and denigrate the West. istories.media/en/stories/2...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Pro-Kremlin bot network that we codenamed Matryoshka is now dissemenating this #Severance -themed video smearing Zelensky. Attn. @benstiller.redhour.com

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Ces "agents jetables" recrutés en Belgique par Poutine pour semer sa guerre hybride: d'abord 50 dollars en cryptos pour coller des autocollants avec le message "Fuck Nato ". Puis un bot propose d'autres commandes...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Exclusive: Russia should work to weaken the U.S. negotiating position on Ukraine by helping stoke tensions between the Trump administration and other countries while pushing ahead with Moscow’s efforts to dismantle the Ukrainian state, according to a document prepared for the Kremlin.

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

Un peu de contextualisation avec cette présentation du livre en question, "Un média d'influence d'Etat : enquête sur la chaîne russe RT", republié en 2024 aux éditions de l'INA, qui sort aujourd'hui cette courte vidéo en format "Bref". www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUf-...

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Malgré l'absorption progressive de #Wagner par #AfricaCorps et le #Kremlin, les opérations informationnelles de la milice russe s'étendent en #Afrique. Son #ProjetLakhta engrange les opérations sur le sol français. Enquête. www.jeuneafrique.com/1666958/poli...

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Merci au @lemonde.fr de publier ce soir ma tribune, écrite après ma relaxe par le tribunal de Créteil, qui faisait suite au procès en diffamation intenté par la chaîne RT France contre mon éditeur, l'INA, et moi-même. 1/3 #StandUpForScience

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

Ravi d’avoir pu échanger avec Sophie Malibeaux pour @rfi.fr dans Les dessous de l’infox. J’ai pu expliquer comment les infrastructures numériques sont façonnées de manières bien distinctes par la Russie et l'Ukraine pour contrôler l’information dans le contexte de la guerre depuis 2014. rfi.my/BTWk

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

The 3 members of the Bulgarian spy ring that spied on Bellingcat and plead not guilty have just been found guilty at the Old Bailey. The spy ring was directed by Wirecard fraudster Jan Marsalek on the behalf of the Russian intelligence services. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 15 days ago • 89 comments

This is a direct proof of the consequences of polluting the internet with disinformation.

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Comment l’Europe se prépare à la guerre : le documentaire vidéo du « Monde » au nord du continent Un format inédit de 30min et le résultat de deux semaines de reportage et d’enquête sur le terrain, à la frontière avec la Russie. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

After the onset of Russia’s full-scale war in 2022, negative and misleading narratives about Ukraine have gained momentum in right-leaning U.S. alternative media. As traditional news consumption reaches historic lows, a new frontier of media consumption has taken the lead.

submitted 17 days ago • 51 comments

Anne-Sophie Dhiver, the deputy head of the French government agency Viginum, spoke to Recorded Future News about why and how her agency was addressing the threat of disinformation. https://therecord.media/focus-on-musk-algorithms-not-words-france-disinfo-agency-interview

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

France's disinformation investigations team VIGINUM has published a report on the three years of Russian disinformation campaigns since the country's invasion of Ukraine. An English version PDF is available.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

« Il y a quelque chose de cynique et paradoxal dans le fait de défendre en surface la liberté d’expression tout en attaquant en justice, en sous-main, des chercheurs qui enquêtent sur RT » Merci à @chriscgarnier.bsky.social de m'avoir interrogé ... 1/2 www.streetpress.com/sujet/174101...

submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Tucker Carlson is now repeating unfounded allegations that weapons sent to Ukraine are ending up with groups that include Hamas. The Hamas claim originated from a fake BBC-Bellingcat video created by a Russian disinformation campaign mimicking news organisations and was debunked months ago.

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

submitted 22 days ago • 183 comments

On @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social just now, former US ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands said Americans "don't want to pay for another of Zelensky's yachts". The claim that Zelensky is using US aid to buy yachts is an old piece of disinformation directly originating from Russia. It's not true.

submitted 22 days ago • 80 comments

A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments

Greenwald interviewed Dugin, wow.

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NEW: We’ve uncovered something alarming: a Russian-backed disinformation network, known as the Pravda network, is flooding the internet—and LLMs—with pro-Kremlin propaganda. Our new report reveals how this growing operation threatens democracies worldwide. www.americansunlight.org/updates/new-...

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How do sanctions give Washington leverage in negotiations with Moscow? And what can Europe and Ukraine do if the U.S. eases restrictions? For answers to these and other questions, Meduza spoke to researcher @mshagina.bsky.social.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Pro-Kremlin disinfo network is calling for protests in Germany against allegedly rigged elections and a victory allegedly "obviously stolen" from AfD. Codenamed Matryoshka, it stays active on X and BlueSky, focused on German elections. 1/2

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Trois ans après le déclenchement de l’invasion du territoire ukrainien par les forces armées de la Fédération de Russie, #VIGINUM publie une synthèse des principaux modes opératoires informationnels observés depuis le 24 février 2022 ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

VIGINUM (@viginum.bsky.social) publie un rapport sur "3 années d’opérations informationnelles russes", qui reprend les principaux modes opératoires informationnels observés ces dernières années, dont la majeure partie est apparue en corollaire de la guerre d’agression menée par la Russie en Ukraine.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

"War in Ukraine: Three years of Russian IOs" Proud to see this last @viginum.bsky.social report released. English version: www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/2025-0...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

www.lemonde.fr/les-envies-d...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Russian z-channels are sharing a curious new video that promotes peace talks to end the war in Ukraine & mocks armchair zealots demanding total victory. Some claim it's Ukrainian propaganda, but Agentstvo ID'd the actors as Russians, & it was first shared by a Kremlin press pool reporter. Part 1/2:

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Lire Trump sur Zelensky ce mercredi. Se mettre deux secondes à la place des Ukrainiens.

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

Today, Google Threat Intelligence is alerting the community to increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors (GRU, FSB, etc.) to compromise Signal Messenger accounts. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Exactly one year ago, Putin had Alexey Navalny killed

submitted 34 days ago • 19 comments

www.wsj.com/world/europe... "The SSD has brought together various elements of Russia’s intelligence services. It has taken over some powers from the FSB, the country’s largest intelligence service, and absorbed Unit 29155"

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Abandonnée par Kadhafi, la base de Maaten al-Sarra doit devenir l'une des têtes de pont de la stratégie russe en Afrique : bâtir une infrastructure logistique multipolaire reliant les pays du #Sahel à la Méditerranée et à la mer Rouge. #AfricaCorps #Russafrique www.jeuneafrique.com/1656891/poli...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Paris nomme une avenue Alexeï-Navalny à proximité de l’ambassade de Russie

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments