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Fear as a weapon: inside Russia’s Baltic escalation playbook
Russia turns Baltic immigration and defence measures into stories of pogroms and invasion prep. EEAS says fear is the strategy, not a side effect.
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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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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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The Germs of “Russian World”. Version 2.0
At the beginning of December 2022, TEXTY published the material entitled “The Germs of “Russian World” — one of our most elaborate and important projects of the year. The study offered a comprehensive insight into the people and organizations that support Russia and its policy in various forms in 19 countries of Europe. We…
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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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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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The Irony of the Kremlin’s Sudden Concern for Media Freedom in Serbia
The current narrative, which is being propagated by Russian-influence channels, aims to portray Serbia as a nation in which media pluralism is being systematically suppressed, particularly through the expansion of state-linked companies like Telekom Srbija. While some of the underlying concerns are legitimate and Serbia does genuinely have media problems involving political pressure, concentrated…
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Investigation: Russia recruits young “agents” on social media
Russia uses groups and platforms on social media to recruit young people to carry out criminal assignments in return for payment. All text in the image above is fabricated and is for illustrative purposes only.
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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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Storm-1516 turns its fabrications on Paris and Berlin
As Washington’s support for Kyiv collapsed through 2025, a Russian influence operation run partly through a fugitive American former policeman moved its forged smears and staged witnesses onto France and Germany.