-
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.
-
How a Coordinated TikTok Campaign Pushed an Unknown Candidate to the Front of Romania’s Presidential Race
A candidate polling near zero won the first round, a declassified intelligence file blamed a coordinated network, and for the first time in the post-communist era a European country threw out a national vote over foreign interference.
-
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.
-
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.
-
How Russian Influence Actors Manufactured a 2024 Election Fraud Claim in Georgia
A 20-second clip took hours to go viral and a joint FBI-ODNI-CISA statement to formally trace back to Moscow.
-
Sputnik, RT, and a Referendum: How Russian State Media Amplified Spain’s Catalonia Crisis
Moscow had no stake in Catalan independence — the point was to make the European Union look like it was cracking apart from the inside.
-
How the Kremlin Responded to Being Named in Alexei Navalny’s Novichok Poisoning
A joint investigative team traced FSB operatives across dozens of overlapping flights with their target — and the Kremlin’s answer was to call the world’s most detailed poisoning investigation ever published “insulting.”
-
The Burisma Tapes: How a Kremlin-Linked Lawmaker Manufactured a Corruption Narrative Ahead of the 2020 Election
A U.S. Treasury-sanctioned Russian agent released selectively framed phone recordings that traveled from a Kyiv press conference into the heart of the American election.
-
The Sputnik V Playbook: How Russian State Media and a Hidden PR Firm Smeared Western COVID-19 Vaccines
A state vaccine-promotion effort quietly merged with a covert influencer-payment scheme, producing one of the most sustained health disinformation campaigns of the pandemic.
-
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.