On June 12, 2026, dTeam observed seven Matryoshka videos published on X that utilized subliminal advertising techniques with the insertion of single frames of text into the videos.

As Armenia’s elections draw closer, Russia’s FIMI apparatus now claims that European states are pressuring the Armenian authorities to launch ‘large-scale religious persecutions’ in the country. This recurring narrative is baseless and very much a classic in Russia’s disinformation playbook.

Fact Check: PinkNews Did NOT Report That Armenia Faces Mandatory LGBTQ+, Transgender Quotas For Cabinet Members #CheckTok #FactCheck #PinkNews #Armenia #LGBTQ #EUmembership leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2...

The analysis shows that Russian operations, including Storm-1516, the Russian Foundation to Battle Injustice and Operation Overload, used coordinated tactics to influence political discourse in Armenia and weaken trust in democratic institutions. www.isdglobal.org/digital-disp...

ISD identified more than 30 Storm-1516 campaigns targeting Armenia between April 2025 and April 2026, making Armenia the operation’s most frequently targeted country during that period. www.isdglobal.org/digital-disp...

Since May 2025, we've removed 8,526 accounts tied to state-backed influence activity on Bluesky. 4,907 of those takedowns happened in 2026 alone, roughly double the rate we saw in 2025. 1/4 🧵

Vincent Bolloré is a public danger to France. By putting Xenia Fedorova, the former head of RT France, on CNEWS as a ”journalist,” he is officially doing Putin’s job. Bringing a Kremlin propagandist into the heart of French media is nothing short of traitorous

La #propagande russe diffusée par Cnews & Cie se fait remarquer à l'étranger également. Voici ce que dit le chercheur @joniaskola.bsky.social : "Le modèle Bolloré est le suicide de la démocratie européenne [..] la France le laisse normaliser ce que nous devrions combattre".

In an unintentionally comedic FIMI campaign, Kremlin outlets are now devoting extensive coverage to Russia’s supposedly ‘excellent’ air defence systems, praising them as the world’s most capable, a claim increasingly difficult to reconcile with reality.

In this week’s update, read about how disinformation has become a central front in Armenia’s strategic shift towards Europe. #Armenia #europe #russia #disinformation

Also on YT ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER74... via The Bulwark ⬇️ & "Guess what this is."

«Content creators online are attracting large audiences with videos that show open drug use, crime, and piles of trash in European cities—often framed as evidence of the continent’s alleged decline. These videos frequently portray immigrants as responsible […]» #Europe #UK #platforms #monetization

Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken: For every dollar that we [the US] put into Ukraine, Europeans and others put in a dollar and a half. So the notion that they were free-riding on Ukraine is simply not true.

‼️ Hungary returns stolen Oschadbank funds and gold to Ukraine

This is Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, head of the Russian Church. Pope Francis called him "The altar boy of Putin." 😂 He is worth $4-6 Billion! He wears a 600K watch and calls the war in Ukraine a "Holy War". Oh, he's also a former KGB thug. Now he's just a war criminal. #Ukrainewar #WarCriminal

If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine ceases to exist. IF Russia ceases, the war ceases

Two Russian nationals were placed under house arrest after authorities uncovered separate attempts to bring large amounts of undeclared Russian rubles in cash into Armenia — with one one carrying $700,000, and another $82,000.

The full force of Russian FIMI is now being deployed against Armenia ahead of its parliamentary elections, largely recycling the same narratives used in Moldova, with attacks on Armenian PM Nikol Pashinyan almost perfectly mirroring those previously directed at Maia Sandu.

Public Service Announcement: Russia‘s propaganda botnets are going all-out trying to promote Victor Órban before the elections in Hungary, with a whole host of hair-raising disinformation narratives. The „act of terror“ story is still strong, so stay vigilant.

The dumbest russian-bot narratives is the Ukraine/Gaza comparisons! Look at the American anti-Israel clan like MTG & Tucker Carlson. Seeing the inhumanity of Israel’s attacks, but PRAISES russia. Thing is: evil is evil. They link together. Those not seeing that, has an agenda! PERIOD!

Steve Witkoff’s rise wasn’t an accident, neither is his role in Trump’s new Kremlin-friendly “peace plan.” For decades he operated inside the same russian money pipeline that shaped Trump’s world. The long format version: Witkoff & the russia relations 👇🏼 ineukraine.com/2025/11/27/t...

Russia‘s #propaganda #botnets are going all in with their German Bundeswehr anxiety today. They REALLY don‘t want more of that. All of these are fake of course. The last one (next post) is particularly funny. #matryoshka

Der Führer eines Landes hat Großmachtfantasien und plant Angriffe auf andere Länder. Russland meint damit Merz und Deutschland.

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 Russian Matryoshka accounts used deep fakes of the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron and the President of Romania, Nicușor Dan, with disinformation targeting the upcoming Moldovan Parliamentary elections.

🧵 Kaja Kallas has become, indirectly, one of the targets of the Russian state disinfo machine. As a part of 2-month campaign smearing Maia Sandu, Matryoshka bot network is today inciting a conflict between Sandu and Kallas. Likely to put spokes in the wheel of the Moldova-EU summit.

Mal besaß sie angeblich eine Villa im Wert von 15 Millionen Dollar, mal eine 150.000-Dollar-Handtasche, mal Offshore-Firmen. Angeblich hat sie sich sogar den »Markt für Kirchenausrüstung« unter den Nagel gerissen. Vor allem aber wird ihr Kinderhandel angedichtet. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

Kolumne: Russlands Propagandanetzwerke feuern aus allem Rohren, mehrere Fake-Videos am Tag sind Standard. Ihr liebstes Ziel ist seit Wochen die Präsidentin von Moldau Maia Sandu.

Die russische Matryoshka-Kampagne fälscht jetzt Titelseiten von Titanic und Charlie Hebdo.

Erschütternd. Russlandpropagandist in Diensten Trumps attackiert medizinische Fachzeitschriften und Wikimedia Foundation - als Staatsanwalt. Hatte ich übersehen. www.rnd.de/wirtschaf...

South African influencers attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for declining Russia’s proposed ceasefire appear to be linked to an influence-for-hire network.

“Kyiv would have fallen in five hours if Putin’s tanks hadn’t gotten stuck in the mud,” Trump claimed. Strange how that mud also burned down tanks, blew up fuel trucks, and stopped entire columns with Javelins and Molotovs. Why not give credit to the Ukrainians who stood and fought back?

1/14 New Investigation! Facebook is quietly being overrun by co-ordinated networks of AI slop, hijacked celebrity pages, and engagement-baiting fake news spreading polarizing disinfo and propaganda. Upwards of 22 million users have been exposed. #ReadIfYouLoveJesus👇 #disinfo

📑 Read my and @marcowenjones.bsky.social' report on the influence operation at [ sites.google.com/view/theqata... ].

🕵️🧑‍💻👺🌏 My seminar at @mpib-berlin.bsky.social's Center for Humans and Machines, on my investigations of a major international influence operation, and of misinformation spread fomenting the 2024 UK summer riots, has been published by the institute. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnA... #OSINT #SOCMINT

4/ I found > 130 compromised pages covering fake news hubs, celebrity fan pages, and entertainment profiles. Most pages are run from Vietnam, with connections to the Philippines, Indonesia, Morocco, and Pakistan. There are likely hundreds more - perhaps thousands.

11/ The network farms engagement with manipulative ads.E.g. 👉 "If you love Jesus, press this thumb" 👉 "If you respect veterans, click here" These "press the thumb" posts prey on low digital literacy and emotional reflexes—turning faith and patriotism into cheap engagement fuel

13/ The real danger isn’t that everyone believes the disinfo. It’s that enough people do, and the volume is so high it pollutes the platform, pollutes discourse, and normalizes AI-slop. As this AI post of Musk with puppies shows, many people don't know/care its AI and disinfo

English version’s out. ▶️ www.arte.tv/en/videos/11... As in the French version, my and @marcowenjones.bsky.social's report is featured in the section starting at timeline mark 13:37

The fruits of #enshittification. A lucrative racket for both platform and grifter, with cost to defrauded users of platforms, which yet refuse transparency and interoperability to let said users control their own experience, and refuse to themselves do anything substantial about the problem.

Also interviewed for the RTÉ piece was @marcowenjones.bsky.social, with whom I worked investigating the influence operation "The Qatar Plot". He authored a post about a similar disinformation attempt by the same account in the wake of an arson attack in Wales.

More about the account's inauthentic origins in the digital asset farming economy, and about my other investigations, can be found at my blog.

🧌🧑‍💻🇮🇪🔥 European xenophobic grift X account I exposed as farmed+flipped repeats info void exploitation tactic to stoke anti-immigrant/-Muslim aggression in #Ireland. I was interviewed about this phenomenon for this @news.rte.ie Clarity piece by @jackmccarronkk.bsky.social. 📰 www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Here’s a machine translated version of my column on what #Trump and #Hegseth are trying to do with the #military. I really don’t get why the fact that they are openly preparing violent oppression with soldiers is no bigger story in the US. Any ideas? www-spiegel-de.trans...

Unsurprisingly, the ridiculous “Macron, Merz and Stamer were secrey doing coke together” propaganda clip is straight from the Russian Telegram channels feeding the Matryoshka network. You have to be VERY gullible to fall for this stuff. But many obviously are.

Russian propaganda in the wild, neither subtle nor clever: On the left - the current @economist.com cover about the “Taiwan Test” facing the US government. On the right: Russian fake cover swapping Taiwan for Ukraine, currently circulated by Matryoshka propaganda accounts.