
The fakes also shift blame onto the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Another video claims that organizations and media outlets funded by the agency took part in a campaign against U.S. intelligence and Gabbard personally after they supposedly exposed the “truth” about the laboratories. The outlets and journalists that were claimed to have…

Turkish journalist known for spreading pro-Kremlin narratives, is behind 40% of the false claims used in a vast Russian influence operation aimed at discrediting pro-Western Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

Operated by a former Florida deputy sheriff now living in Moscow, Storm-1516 deployed AI-generated deepfakes and 171 fake news sites to target Western elections — racking up 67 million views and reaching a sitting U.S. Vice President.

Linked to two Kremlin-connected companies and sanctioned by the United States, Doppelganger created near-perfect imitations of trusted Western news outlets to push pro-Russian narratives — and kept rebuilding within 24 hours of every takedown.

Numerous campaigns have been coordinated in a secret Telegram channel that directs these influencers on what to say, where to capture videos, what hashtags to use, and when exactly to post the video.