NEW REPORT: We uncovered a coordinated network of fake X profiles that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in #Iran. We call this network “PRISONBREAK”. Read the report 👉 citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France and Macron. The campaign is alleging that the French president is building a luxury bunker, which costs 148 million euro.

ISD reveals how a Czech-language community of 70 accounts on X systematically spreads Kremlin-aligned messages ahead of the parliamentary elections.

Russian-born restaurateurs sent dozens of batches of banned chemicals from Barcelona to Russia that could be used for weapons A new investigation by Important Stories, Slidstvo.Info, the Belarusian Investigative Center, the OCCRP and others details shipments of the industrial chemical NMP.

Têtes de cochon devant des mosquées : l’enquête privilégie la piste du renseignement militaire russe

🧵 For Trump's admin, influencing its citizens with a bot network seems becoming an ordinary routine. Today's US is one of the first G7 powers that uses bots domestically outside of an election cycle—what for a long time used to be exclusive to authoritarian states. 1/

BREAKING: 🇲🇩 Moldova parliamentary elections are more important for the Russian state to interfere than these 2024-2025 elections _combined_: 🇺🇸 US, presidential 🇩🇪 Germany, parliamentary 🇵🇱 Poland, presidential ...as measured by an effort spent on a bot network. 🧵

«Politzek, les voix qui défient le Kremlin», une plongée dans la nuit sans fin des opposants russes. Rencontre pour @liberation.fr avec la réalisatrice russe Ekaterina Mamontova, réfugiée à Paris. À voir absolument sur @francetv.bsky.social dimanche soir www.liberation.fr/internationa...

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The campaign alleges luxury purchases totalling in more than 1 million euro.

Looks like the latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targeting France. The campaign includes a video with a group of the alleged "Islamic extremists", who are threatening to make France an "islamic state" and are slashing the French flag in the end of the video.

Mon interview dans @liberation.fr sur les nouvelles "mesures actives" qui touchent l'Europe et la nécessité de cesser de systématiquement mordre à l'hameçon que nous tendent les commanditaires de ces ingérences, après l'affaire des têtes de cochon. www.liberation.fr/societe/inge...

Spies, banquets, and embezzlement: The inner workings of Putin's “cultural ties” directorate Run by former career spies, the unit sought to project Russia's “soft power” across the post-Soviet space, with lavish spending but lackluster results.

We've just had a special weekend email from the Russian troll factory (they usually email us their latest fake videos Monday to Friday, so this is out of character), and they're all about Charlie Kirk. Unusually, they've also posted them on Truth Social, which they don't usually do in my experience.

The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI crossover disinformation campaign targets Ukraine. The campaign alleges that Ukraine is using civilians to clear the minefields. x.com/IvankaNews_/... .

In our new disinformation update: Storm-1516 goes on a spree of campaigns, which are impersonating the websites and reportage from the real media outlets: France TV, OK! USA and Correctiv

Interesting (and worrying) to observe a similar trend among certain private actors in France regarding the perceived need to develop capacities to carry out offensive actions in order to "protect democracies".

Graphika’s new report, Falsos Amigos, is out today! It looks at a network of domains and social media accounts using AI tools to launder reports from Chinese state media outlet CGTN and put out primarily pro-China, anti-West content. To access the full report: graphika.com/reports/fals...

We’re kicking off this year’s OSoMe Awesome Speakers with Patrick Warren! 📅 September 12 | 12pm ET 🎤 Talk: Measuring the Impact of a Large State-Sponsored Narrative-Laundering Campaign: The case of the Storm-1516 attack on Zelensky 🔗 iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Dozens of anonymous X accounts advocating for Scotland's independence went silent after Iran lost power following Israel's strikes: ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens-of-pr...

What seems to be the first known Storm-1516 disinformation campaign to target Norway. The campaign alleges mass death of wildlife in the Nitelva river in Norway due to high concentration of deuterium. x.com/Partisangirl... .

La chambre rouge de Wagner : un « Netflix de l’horreur » et des abonnés aux crimes de guerre

Pendant plusieurs semaines, j'ai travaillé sur l'une des plus grosses fuites de données de l'histoire du complexe russe de manipulation de l'information.J'en ai tiré cet article, qui "teste" l'articulation qu'on peut construire entre leaks et démarche géopolitique legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/06/1...

"Afrique-France : le divorce ?", le dernier documentaire du duo de choc Alexandra Jousset et @kbolchak.bsky.social, est diffusé ce soir sur France 5. Merci de m'avoir interviewé ! www.france.tv/documentaire...

Argentine intelligence has identified five Russian nationals suspected of espionage activities linked to “Russia’s geopolitical interests,” presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

I've pieced together the jigsaw pieces the Russian troll factories have been including in their latest fake news X posts, and I think they're trying to tell me something. but I'm struggling to decipher their subtle message. Thanks to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social for providing the missing pieces.

Nouveau rapport de @viginum.bsky.social à lire sur l'organisation African Initiative, l'un des acteurs clefs de l'influence russe en Afrique depuis la mort de Prigojine. www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

📑 Very happy to share our last technical report on the "press agency" African Initiative, Russia’s new tool of disinformation in Africa. Kudos to our partners from the FCDO and EEAS for their contributions 🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇺💪

Au Mali, les détentions et tortures secrètes de civils par le groupe russe Wagner

Some thoughts on perennial pitfalls in news coverage of social media manipulation that frequently result in reporting on fake accounts/bots/etc being far less accurate and informative than it ought to be... www.conspirator0.com/p/journalism...

The moment has come to expose John Dougan's new fake media network of 36 websites. This network so far hasn't been involved in any campaigns, which we could attribute to Storm-1516.

How the GRU's Unit 29155 hacking department obsessed over @bellingcat.com, created the biolabs conspiracy and left their targeting server unprotected....among other crazy findings in this latest investigation: theins.press/en/inv/281731

Pro-Kremlin actors including anti-lockdown groups, Italian ‘independent journalists’ in Russian-occupied Ukraine and Russian officials are using film screenings to spread pro-Kremlin propaganda across Italy, breaching EU sanctions ⬇️ www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...

How researchers at Bocconi guessed the Pope using network analysis ⬇️ www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw...

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

New @viginum.bsky.social report out today. It gives a very extensive overview of disinformation activities linked to Storm-1516, one of the most active Russian information manipulation sets, for the past two years.

[FR][EN]Our last report on Storm-1516, a russian information manipulation set (IMS) likely to affect the French and European debate. So proud of my team! Feel free to share and enjoy. #FIMI

VIGINUM publie un rapport sur les activités de Storm-1516, un mode opératoire informationnel russe susceptible d’affecter le débat public francophone et européen. Ce rapport s'appuie sur l'analyse de 77 opérations informationnelles conduites par Storm-1516 ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

Yesterday we released our report on Storm-1516, a Russian information manipulation set responsible of at least 77 information operations targeting Ukraine and Western countries’ interests.

Désinformation : le Quai d’Orsay a condamné, mardi soir, «les acteurs russes» de la campagne Storm-1516, à l’origine depuis l'été 2023 de dizaines d’opérations contre l'Ukraine et ses alliés, dont la France, analysées dans un rapport de Viginum. www.liberation.fr/internationa...

“These people are disposable.” I’ve been working for a while on this story about how Russian intel services recruit (often unsuspecting) Ukrainians and Belarusians for their sabotage offensive in Europe, and how Western services are trying to counter it. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

👀 L’ANSSI et ses partenaires du Centre de Coordination des Crises #Cyber ont observé le ciblage et la compromission d’entités françaises par le mode opératoire d’attaque (MOA) APT28, attribué publiquement par l’Union Européenne à la Russie. 🔗À lire ici : www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/cti/CERTFR-2...

Putin's spies are building a hit list of journalists, politicians, and public figures across Europe. GRU agents are ordered to collect home addresses of Kremlin critics for potential "active measures," investigative Dossirt Center reveals 🧵Here’s why they’re doing it — and please RT

For the first time, France officially attributes a number of cyberattacks to Russia's GRU, including, to the surprise of no one, the 2015 TV5 Monde hack and the 2017 so-called "MacronLeaks" (as well as attacks targeting the 2024 Olympic games).

🧵 Dig dig baby is about Russian gold mines and gold routes in CAR 🇨🇫 and DRC 🇨🇩 Dig Dig Baby est une histoire de mines d’or et de routes de l’or russes en RCA 🇨🇫 et RDC 🇨🇩 alleyesonwagner.org/2025/04/25/d...

#VIGINUM œuvre depuis plusieurs années à la promotion et au développement de standards communs dans la lutte contre les manipulations de l'information. Le service publie une version consolidée de sa doctrine de capitalisation sur #OpenCTI ➡️ www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/publications...

Le Sahel et les faux experts : les dessous d’une campagne de propagande russe

Today, in collaboration with @dfrlab.bsky.social, we pull back the curtain with the #Pravda Dashboard, a live, hour‑by‑hour tracker of #Russia’s Portal Kombat network. Follow each article’s journey, trace domain footprints, spot language‑shifts and watch targeting patterns unfold! portal-kombat.com

Alarming state of affairs. In past 3 months, Trump has: 1. Closed FBI Foreign Influence Task Force 2. Closed State Dept Global Misinformation office 3. Ordered CISA to no longer address misinfo 4. Redirected Cyber Command away from Russian disinfo 5. Fired NSA Director 6. Sacked 6 NSC officials

The Kremlin’s ideology czar, Alexander Kharichev, has a new blueprint for building Putinism. It mostly features all the traditionalist crap you already know, but he’s also sprinkled in some vaguely theocratic “sacralization of state authority” to get his boss’s attention. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

The following 4 fake videos posted today by Russian disinfo network Matryoshka clearly demonstrates that Russian state has some interest in outcome of Moldovan elections. 1/2