X’s new “About this account” tool reveals that dozens of pro-Russian and MAGA accounts with tens of thousands of followers, long posing as American or Russian, are actually created and run from India, Bangladesh, and other South Asian countries.

Le Groupe de soutien à l’Islam et aux Musulmans (JNIM) est aujourd’hui aux portes de Bamako, et il gouverne une bonne partie de l’hinterland malien et burkinabè ainsi que l’ouest du Niger. Par Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social. aoc.media/analyse/2025...

Archiving the web is more important and more challenging than ever before. https://cnn.it/4phKzlW

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy with one of their most bizarre claims alleging that Zelenskyy holds a Russian passport (which was allegedly issued in Crimea in 2015) and owns luxury real estate in Moscow

"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show." And how many percents of its revenue Meta projected to come from covert information operations? Do they even care? www.reuters.com/investigatio...

#VIGINUM et Advens lancent Cyber for Good Media, un programme dédié aux journalistes pour renforcer leurs compétences en cybersécurité et en lutte contre la menace informationnelle. 🗞️ Intéressé ? Les inscriptions sont ouvertes jusqu'au 5 décembre (15 places disponibles) ➡️ cyberforgood.org/fr/media/

Au procès des «mains rouges» sur le Mémorial de la Shoah : un raid «pensé et organisé» et la «gangrène» de l’antisémitisme La motivation antisémite ou non des tags, pour lesquels quatre ressortissants bulgares sont jugés depuis mercredi, était au cœur de la deuxième journée d’audience.

The CIA hacked and disrupted a computer network used by Venezuela’s security service in Trump’s 1st term, one of a series of covert actions US agencies took or considered taking as Trump increased pressure on Maduro: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

1/ The Kremlin’s hierarchy is shifting. The new "The Economist" story with my small contibutions explains how the war in Ukraine has elevated a new class — ultra-conservatives, relatives, and "svp" veterans — while sidelining old groups and technocrats in particular www.economist.com/1843/2025/1...

One good thing about Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign emailing us their fake news posts everyday of the week is you can get a sense of what really worries Russia. The last few days have been dominated by videos about how unpopular Macron is for wanting to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine

If you’re at #Disinfo2025 in Ljubljana, I’ll be presenting the concept of information manipulation set (IMS) we developed at @viginum.bsky.social. 🗓️This morning at 11.30am 📍Track 2 at Cankarjev Dom @disinfo.eu

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

We are grateful to the BlueSky @Safety.bsky.app team who suspended the entire list of 219 accounts that we found so far for this network.

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...