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“Reagan Means War”: the KGB’s 1984 election operation and its heirs
The KGB’s 1983-84 campaign to stop Reagan’s re-election failed, but its doctrine of covert election meddling lives on in today’s AI-run networks.
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How OpenAI Caught Russian Operations Using ChatGPT
OpenAI found and named a previously unknown Russian operation, “Bad Grammar,” using ChatGPT to write propaganda. Why the toolmaker sees what governments can’t.
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Who is Ilya Gambashidze, the man the US government accuses of running a Kremlin disinformation campaign?
Russian political consultant Ilya Gambashidze is responsible for a large-scale disinformation campaign aimed at undermining trust in democratic processes and institutions in the United States and beyond. Working with Kremlin officials, his digital marketing agency creates fake news sites — sometimes clones of real news outlets to mislead people, the government alleges. Often, the…
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Leaked Files Expose the Firm Running Russia’s “Cognitive Strikes”
Leaked files expose the Social Design Agency, the firm behind Doppelganger, planning “cognitive strikes” and a pig-head attack on Paris mosques. New detail on a known operation.
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Russia’s managed Duma election, and the fraud it blamed on everyone else
The election delivered what it was built to deliver: a supermajority, a war-veteran cohort inside parliament, and a leadership able to present the result as popular will. What changed is the confidence of the messaging around it. Moscow no longer merely defends its own vote; it goes on the offensive against the legitimacy of…
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Russia’s Troll Operation That Dressed Itself Up as a Newsroom
A Moscow “news agency” recruits African influencers to launder Kremlin talking points and turn Sahel anger at France into support for Russia. What ISD and VIGINUM found.
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For Two Minutes, Poland’s State News Agency Reported a Mobilization That Wasn’t Happening
In May 2024 hackers planted a fake dispatch on Poland’s state news wire announcing a 200,000-man mobilization. It was online for minutes. Why that was enough.
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The Russian Network That Stopped Chasing Readers and Started Feeding the Machines
Russia’s Pravda network floods the web with pro-Kremlin content aimed not at readers but at AI models and Wikipedia. How VIGINUM and others mapped “LLM grooming.”
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Days Before Slovakia Voted, a Fake Recording Went Viral. The Rules Meant Almost No One Could Answer It
Two days before Slovakia’s 2023 election, AI-faked audio of a party leader and a journalist went viral inside the silence period. Why the timing made it so hard to rebut.
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How a Russian Operation Tried to Scare the World Away From Paris 2024
Russia’s Storm-1679 built a fake Tom Cruise documentary, forged CIA and DGSI warnings, and spoofed newscasts to scare people away from the Paris 2024 Olympics. What it achieved.