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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.