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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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Russia Threw Everything at Moldova 2025 Election and Still Lost
Vote-buying, deepfaked officials, fake-page armies and AI avatars: Russia threw its whole toolkit at Moldova’s 2025 election. The pro-EU party still won an outright majority.
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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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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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Fake BBC and ARD videos flood Saxony-Anhalt before the September vote
Days before a German state election the AfD is favoured to win, Operation Matryoshka has laundered fabricated broadcasts through trusted Western logos to smear every party except the two friendliest to Moscow.
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How Russia Validated Kazakhstan’s Unproven Color-Revolution Narrative to Justify Military Intervention
Putin sent troops to crush unrest he called a foreign plot — years later, no evidence of foreign terrorists has ever surfaced.
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How Russian-Linked Accounts and State Media Flooded the 2016 Brexit Referendum
Twitter’s own disclosures identified thousands of Internet Research Agency accounts pushing Brexit content, while RT and Sputnik out-reached the official Leave campaigns on social media.