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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today on X, the Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network is weaponizing footage from Friday’s student protests in France. Out of 10 videos published, 9 target a trio of Gabriel Attal, Raphaël Glucksmann, and Édouard Philippe. The 10th focuses solely on Attal.
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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France and the presidential candidate Gabriel Attal along with a fake copycat website attalpresidentsondage[.]fr (the real campaign website is located at attalpresident[.]fr)
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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Over on X, an account with the handle @DemsForMike and the display name "Democrats for Mike Rogers" was created shortly after Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. A quick review reveals that the account is being amplified almost entirely by Republicans, however.
screenshot of the profile of the X account @DemsForMike
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🧵 Days 13 and 14 of Matryoshka's campaign targeting the 2026 US midterms were focused on 18 specific Democratic Senate candidates. Many of these races have almost zero national media attention. So why them? What do they have in common?
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Kremlin-backed Matryoshka bot network is weaponizing the FlyDubai incident to smear the US Democratic Party in increasingly bizarre ways. The goal remains the same: seeking to influence the upcoming US midterm elections.
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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 01/10/2026
«Crucially, unlike the copy-paste botnets of the last decade, these swarms can produce context-aware, original content and vary their behaviour precisely to defeat existing repetition-based detection systems.» #infOps #genAI #agenticAI #disinfo
cetas.turing.ac.uk
Beyond the Bot Farm: How AI Agents Are Changing Influence Operations
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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine and Norway. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Zelenskyy has allegedly purchased a family estate of the Norwegian royal family in connection Zelenskyy's visit to Norway
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network is still trolling @BrandyZadrozny.bsky.social after her report for MS NOW exposing a 🪆 campaign targeting the US midterms. Matryoshka posted this picture piece-by-piece daily, and @GnidaProject.bsky.social solved it using our 🪆 dataset.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign has shifted to the US elections, where it's making wild claims about random Democratic Party candidates. They've also started one of their jigsaws again, which is nearly complete. Not sure if it's a specific person, but at least my face isn't on the poo.
The image is a crude satirical illustration set against broad red and cream stripes that run down the background and continue across the floor.
On the left stands a shaggy grey donkey, facing the viewer, with large upright ears, a pale muzzle and several white stars across its chest.
On the right is a blonde woman wearing black glasses, a blue dress with puffed sleeves, a white apron and black high heels. She leans forward with one hand on her hip and holds an oversized wooden spoon in the other. The spoon is coated in a brown substance, which also appears smeared around her smiling mouth and chin.
A large pile of faeces sits between them in the foreground, surrounded by flies and rising green and yellow stink lines.
Three horizontal black bands mark missing sections of the reconstructed image: one across the upper ears and hair, a wider band across the donkey’s muzzle and the woman’s waist, and a narrow band near the bottom.
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Hervé Letoqueux @herve.checkfirst.network · 28/09/2026
Why Europe's Digital Sovereignty Has a Critical Blind Spot? www.techpolicy.press/europes-digi... #FIMI #Disinformation
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Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Has a Funding Gap
Mark Scott and Richard Woods highlight Europe’s reliance on US funding for its Democracy Stack and call for stronger EU investment in digital sovereignty.
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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Searching for contradictions in a social media account's purported personal history can be a useful way of identifying disingenuous accounts. I was able to partially automate this process by using the AI model Jev to detect and compare autobiographical posts. www.conspirator0.com/p/semi-autom...
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Semi-automated bullshit detection
Using Jev to find potential contradictions in the alleged personal histories of suspicious social media accounts
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🧵 Day 10 of Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bots on the US midterms, now targeting Dem gov nominees in GOP-held states. OPEN SEATS: FL: Jolly GA: Lance Bottoms IA: Sand OH: Acton OK: Munson SC: Johnson WY: Casner CHALLENGING INCUMBENT: AR: Love ID: Pickens
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today, Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bots targeted non-incumbent Dems running for US governorships: AK: Kreiss-Tomkins AL: Jones CO: Weiser KS: Holscher ME: Pingree MI: Benson MN: Klobuchar NM: Haaland RI: Foulkes WI: Crowley
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network is now targeting 2026 Dem gubernatorial candidates: 🔄 Incumbents: Kotek (OR), Shapiro (PA), Hobbs (AZ), Green (HI), Pritzker (IL), Lamont (CT), Moore (MD), Healey (MA), Hochul (NY) 🙏 Open seat: Becerra (CA)
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Kremlin-aligned bot network "Matryoshka" is spreading fabricated claims against major pop stars who drove the 2024 youth vote: • Taylor Swift & Billie Eilish traded their Democratic endorsements for $500M and $120M • Cardi B ran a party-backed sex trafficking ring
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Day 7 of Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot campaign targeting the upcoming US midterms: Seven fake videos centered on this talking point: "CNN, MS NOW and Politico are accused of conducting aggressive campaigning in favor of the Democrats using fake news ahead of the elections"
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another day of Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bots impersonating celebrities, this time with transgender fearmongering to target Democratic party for the upcoming US midterms.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bots are back to targeting elections in Germany (Mecklenburg & Berlin) after 4 days on US midterms. With recent focus on France 2027 elex, this is the 1st time 🪆 is consistently targeting elections in 3 countries simultaneously (🇺🇸, 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪).
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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For over a year, an unknown entity has been hijacking Bluesky accounts and incorporating them into a spam network that follows real users while serving up a mix of political posts, news links, and plagiarized photos. In recent months, some of the spam accounts' posts have started to go viral.
collage of the profiles of 24 Bluesky spam accounts that engage in bulk follow activity
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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
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Russian disinformation campaign sets sights on US midterms
A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said, with more...
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The Insider @theins.press · 14/09/2026
Russia's Matryoshka bots impersonate celebrities in new campaign targeting U.S. midterms with calls not to vote for “pedophile Democrats” The new campaign flagged by @antibot4navalny.bsky.social uses the likenesses of well-known Hollywood figures like Christopher Lloyd and Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Russia's Matryoshka bots impersonate celebrities in new campaign targeting U.S. midterms with calls not to vote for “pedophile Democrats”
The Russian-linked Matryoshka bot network has launched a new campaign aimed at influencing the U.S. midterm elections.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Continuing to focus on the US midterms, today's Matryoshka 🇷🇺 bot network is targeting specific Dem candidates with fake videos impersonating @cnn.com, including: 🔵 Chris Pappas (NH) 🔵 James Talarico (TX) 🔵 Jon Ossoff (GA) 🔵 Mary Peltola (AK) 🔵 Roy Cooper (NC) 🔵 Sherrod Browm (OH)
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Matryoshka, a Russian-state bot network, just started targeting the US midterms with [#]AllDemocratsAreCriminals hashtag. For the day one, they chose the laziest format known for 🪆: repurposed Cameo videos. As always with Matryoshka, assume reach averaging hundreds of views (not Ks!) per video.
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The Insider @theins.press · 08/09/2026
Russia's Matryoshka bots target initiative to provide 5,000 drones for Ukraine, falsely claiming that Germany is embezzling the money The new narrative flagged by @antibot4navalny.bsky.social is being spread through videos posing as Handelsblatt, @financialtimes.com, @bloomberg.com, and others.
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Russia's Matryoshka bots target initiative to provide 5,000 drones for Ukraine, falsely claiming that Germany is embezzling the money
The Russian "Matryoshka" bot network has launched a fresh disinformation campaign against a new German-Ukrainian initiative to produce 5,000 long-range drones,…
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Kevin Shakir @kevinshakir.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Matryoshka-netværket beskyldes for at påvirke tilliden i europæiske lande. Og lige nu blander det sig angiveligt i flere af efterårets valgkampe - i Tyskland, Sverige og Frankrig, som også @antibot4navalny.bsky.social har beskrevet.
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Jagten på et russisk spøgelse: Hvem står bag Matrjosjka-netværket?
Matrjosjka-netværket beskyldes for at påvirke tilliden i europæiske lande. Og lige nu blander det sig angiveligt i valgkampe i Tyskland, Sverige og Frankrig. DR Verificerer forsøger at dykke ned i net...
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Carolin Voigt @frauvgt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Vor der LTW in Sachsen-Anhalt läuft eine mutmaßlich russische Desinfirmationskampagne, die versucht, Landespolitiker:innen zu verunglimpfen. Aufgedeckt hat die Aktion das Kollektiv @antibot4navalny.bsky.social. Für MDR Aktuell habe ich mit einem Betroffenen gesprochen: youtu.be/BA4hL3Ecx4Y?...
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Desinformationskampagne zielt auf Ost-West-Spaltung | MDR AKTUELL Talk
YouTube video by MDR Aktuell
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Kevin Shakir @kevinshakir.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fake stories keep spreading lies regarding Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson - during ongoing elections. The content is pushed in the pattern seen in the pro Russian disinformation ‘Matryoshka campaign’, says @antibot4navalny.bsky.social and @golovchenko.bsky.social to us at DR. www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...
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Med få uger til det svenske valg spredes falske historier om landets statsminister
De svenske myndigheder skriver til DR Verificerer, at de er opmærksomme på historierne.
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The Insider @theins.press · 29/08/2026
The Kremlin’s Matryoshka bot network brings Sweden’s prime minister into its fake stories about French presidential candidate Attal The fakes are a continuation of the campaign Matryoshka launched in Sweden in mid-August, @antibot4navalny.bsky.social reports.
theins.press
The Kremlin’s Matryoshka bot network brings Sweden’s prime minister into its fake stories about French presidential candidate Attal
The Kremlin-linked bot network Matryoshka has launched a new wave of disinformation targeting European politicians ahead of elections. The main targets are…
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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France. The campaign promotes a false narrative that the French presidential candidate Gabriel Attal had an earpiece during the recent presidential debate by using a modified video fragment from a debate.
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Ben Nimmo @benimmo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New from OpenAI: We recently banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts originating in Russia that were being used to promote the International Burke Institute (IBI), a self-described “expert community” based in Israel. For more on the investigation and the wider operation: openai.com/index/disrup...
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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France. The campaign promotes a false narrative that the French presidential candidate Edouard Philippe bought 15 million Euro mansion in Italy and that he is being investigated for embezzlement
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Colin Gerard @colingerard.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We just released @viginum.bsky.social’s brand-new report on Rokh Solis, an information manipulation set (IMS) operated by a shady Israeli-based company called Blackcore, which targeted the most recent French local elections. www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/files/...
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SVT Nyheter @svtnyheter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Proryskt trollnätverk riktar in sig på svenska valet www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/proryskt…
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Proryskt trollnätverk riktar in sig på svenska valet
Ett proryskt trollnätverk har spridit lögner om valfusk i Sverige, och riktat falska anklagelser mot Sveriges statsminister Ulf Kristersson (M). – Vi ser sånt här över hela Europa. Ryssarna inriktar sig mot länder som stöttar Ukraina, säger Kristersson till SVT. Men kampanjen tycks också ha ett annat syfte.
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Lars Wienand @larswienand.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Die Storm-1516-Kampagne russischer Desinformation greift jetzt mit einer üblen Lüge auf einem Klon "Sueddeutsch. com"-Klon Sachsen-Anhalts Ministerpräsidenten Sven Schulze (CDU) an Thx, @gnidaproject.bsky.social @antibot4navalny.bsky.social!
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Russen-Propaganda erfindet über CDU-Ministerpräsident üble Kinder-Lüge
Ein Klon der "Süddeutschen Zeitung" verbreitet frei erfundene "Enthüllungen" über Sachsen-Anhalts Ministerpräsident Sven Schulze (CDU). Das trägt die Handschrift einer russischen Kampagne.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Russian state is now apparently seeking to influence the Sep-2026 Swedish general election. Kremlin-aligned bot network just posted at least 3 fake videos targeting Ulf Kristersson (an incumbent prime minister and one of the strongest advocate of Sweden's aid to Ukraine). 1/3
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Euronews @euronews.com · 13/08/2026
Independent researchers and French authorities have identified a raft of false content focusing on two former prime ministers who intend to run in next year's presidential race. #TheCube ➡️ l.euronews.com/mYif
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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 13/08/2026
Independent researchers @antibot4navalny.bsky.social and French authorities have identified a raft of false content focusing on two former prime ministers who intend to run in next year's presidential race. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Fake videos target French presidential election candidates
Independent researchers and French authorities have identified a raft of false content focusing on two former prime ministers who intend to run in next year's presidential race. #TheCube
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A campaign endorsing Haley Stevens, a Michigan Dem Senate candidate, is being run today by 9 India-based content-farm accounts on X and amplified by an engagement-for-hire network seen in other, completely unrelated campaigns. Primaries for this race are scheduled for today, Aug 4.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BREAKING: Russian state has started a campaign targeting the upcoming 2027 presidential elections in France. Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka bot network posted a series of fake videos and magazine covers on X/Twitter today smearing Gabriel Attal, a candidate endorsed by Emmanuel Macron's party.
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The Insider @theins.press · 02/07/2026
Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network blames France and Ukraine’s SBU for assassination attempt on Ukrainian businessman Yermolaiev Fake videos suggest the attack was due to his alleged plans to testify on Zelensky’s activities, @antibot4navalny.bsky.social reports.
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Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network blames France and Ukraine’s SBU for assassination attempt on Ukrainian businessman Yermolaiev
The Russian Matryoshka bot network has launched a disinformation campaign focused on the June 29 assassination attempt against Ukrainian businessman Vadym…
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Some of flash frames in today's videos of Matryoshka campaign targeting German Sept-2026 elections:
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We're launching a funding drive on Bellingcat today. It's a tough funding environment at the moment with global funder cuts & the fear of Trump scaring off donors, so support us here www.bellingcat.com/donate/?utm_... A short video about what your donations will fund www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vzb...
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What Happens When You Fund Bellingcat ...
YouTube video by Bellingcat
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Lars Wienand @larswienand.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Russische Desinformation mailt jetzt Faktencheckern vorgeblich im Namen des Watchaccounts den eigenen Mist, um Aufmerksamkeit zu generieren (oder Zeit zu stehlen)
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🧵 This is new in how Matryoshka works. They are emailing fact checkers impersonating us, @Antibot4Navalny team: asking to "verify" Matryoshka's daily set of fake videos / front covers *on our behalf*.
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antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Russian-state influence campaign targets the Sep2026 elections in 2 states of Germany. It pits East Germans and West Germans against each other. In these (both eastern) states, AfD can potentially secure state power for the first time in German history. www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web...
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(S+) Desinformation aus Russland: Neue Kampagne nimmt Landtagswahlen ins Visier
Mit einer groß angelegten Einflussoperation versuchen ausländische Akteure, Ost- und Westdeutsche gegeneinander aufzuhetzen. Es ist nicht die erste Kampagne der Operation »Matrjoschka«.
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The Insider @theins.press · 22/06/2026
Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network spreads fakes about purported European conflict over “Russophobia obsession” Fake videos claim there are disagreements between the EU and the Baltics over the region’s “anti-Russian sentiment,” @antibot4navalny.bsky.social says.
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Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network spreads fakes about purported European conflict over “Russophobia obsession”
The Kremlin’s Matryoshka disinformation network has launched a campaign aimed at driving a wedge between the Baltic states and the rest of Europe, as well as…
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The Insider @theins.press · 17/06/2026
Kremlin bots respond with disinfo after former U.S. national intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard publishes report on “biolabs” in Ukraine Matryoshka's latest campaign features posts posing as @politico.com, @theguardian.com, @lefigaro.fr and even The Insider, according to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social.
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Kremlin bots respond with disinfo after former U.S. national intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard publishes report on “biolabs” in Ukraine
The Russian bot network Matryoshka has devoted a series of fake videos and posts to the topic of “American biolabs” in Ukraine, AntiBot4Navalny, a project that…
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
After 24 Feb 2022, domestic producers stopped forwarding Russian material and started making their own pro-Kremlin synthesis. Bucha denial circulated in NZ Telegram by early April. By October, The Daily Telegraph (NZ) ranked among the top publishers of Russian state content. #nzpol
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The Insider @theins.press · 11/06/2026
Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network launches new disinfo campaign claiming France is preparing to turn Armenia into “foothold against Russia” The latest posts mimic @lefigaro.fr, @liberation.fr, @france24.com, @leparisien.fr and even The Insider, according to @antibot4navalny.bsky.social.
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Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network launches new disinfo campaign claiming France is preparing to turn Armenia into “foothold against Russia”
The Russian bot network Matryoshka has launched a disinfo campaign targeting Armenia based on the hacking of Tchap, a French government messaging app that the…
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