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Team Leader @viginum.bsky.social PhD in Geopolitics @univ-paris8.fr Researcher @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social Russian FP, IOs, OSINT investigations Latest publication: https://therussiaprogram.org/russia_information_influence
Au procès des «mains rouges» sur le Mémorial de la Shoah : un raid «pensé et organisé» et la «gangrène» de l’antisémitisme
La motivation antisémite ou non des tags, pour lesquels quatre ressortissants bulgares sont jugés depuis mercredi, était au cœur de la deuxième journée d’audience.
The CIA hacked and disrupted a computer network used by Venezuela’s security service in Trump’s 1st term, one of a series of covert actions US agencies took or considered taking as Trump increased pressure on Maduro: www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...
29.10.2025 14:48 — 👍 47 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 31/ The Kremlin’s hierarchy is shifting.
The new "The Economist" story with my small contibutions explains how the war in Ukraine has elevated a new class — ultra-conservatives, relatives, and "svp" veterans — while sidelining old groups and technocrats in particular
www.economist.com/1843/2025/1...
One good thing about Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign emailing us their fake news posts everyday of the week is you can get a sense of what really worries Russia. The last few days have been dominated by videos about how unpopular Macron is for wanting to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine
16.10.2025 07:53 — 👍 555 🔁 133 💬 8 📌 4Because we managed to remove them all 😇
24.10.2025 12:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If you’re at #Disinfo2025 in Ljubljana, I’ll be presenting the concept of information manipulation set (IMS) we developed at @viginum.bsky.social.
🗓️This morning at 11.30am
📍Track 2 at Cankarjev Dom
@disinfo.eu
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
We are grateful to the BlueSky @Safety.bsky.app team who suspended the entire list of 219 accounts that we found so far for this network.
08.10.2025 09:27 — 👍 65 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 1
NEW REPORT: We uncovered a coordinated network of fake X profiles that is spreading AI-generated content to induce revolt in #Iran. We call this network “PRISONBREAK”.
Read the report 👉 citizenlab.ca/2025/10/ai-e...
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France and Macron. The campaign is alleging that the French president is building a luxury bunker, which costs 148 million euro.
02.10.2025 08:45 — 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 2
ISD reveals how a Czech-language community of 70 accounts on X systematically spreads Kremlin-aligned messages ahead of the parliamentary elections.
02.10.2025 09:05 — 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
Russian-born restaurateurs sent dozens of batches of banned chemicals from Barcelona to Russia that could be used for weapons
A new investigation by Important Stories, Slidstvo.Info, the Belarusian Investigative Center, the OCCRP and others details shipments of the industrial chemical NMP.
Têtes de cochon devant des mosquées : l’enquête privilégie la piste du renseignement militaire russe
27.09.2025 03:33 — 👍 59 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 5
🧵 For Trump's admin, influencing its citizens with a bot network seems becoming an ordinary routine.
Today's US is one of the first G7 powers that uses bots domestically outside of an election cycle—what for a long time used to be exclusive to authoritarian states.
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BREAKING:
🇲🇩 Moldova parliamentary elections are more important for the Russian state to interfere than these 2024-2025 elections _combined_:
🇺🇸 US, presidential
🇩🇪 Germany, parliamentary
🇵🇱 Poland, presidential
...as measured by an effort spent on a bot network. 🧵
«Politzek, les voix qui défient le Kremlin», une plongée dans la nuit sans fin des opposants russes. Rencontre pour @liberation.fr avec la réalisatrice russe Ekaterina Mamontova, réfugiée à Paris.
À voir absolument sur @francetv.bsky.social dimanche soir
www.liberation.fr/internationa...
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The campaign alleges luxury purchases totalling in more than 1 million euro.
19.09.2025 10:43 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
Looks like the latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targeting France. The campaign includes a video with a group of the alleged "Islamic extremists", who are threatening to make France an "islamic state" and are slashing the French flag in the end of the video.
16.09.2025 10:40 — 👍 33 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 2
Mon interview dans @liberation.fr sur les nouvelles "mesures actives" qui touchent l'Europe et la nécessité de cesser de systématiquement mordre à l'hameçon que nous tendent les commanditaires de ces ingérences, après l'affaire des têtes de cochon.
www.liberation.fr/societe/inge...
Spies, banquets, and embezzlement: The inner workings of Putin's “cultural ties” directorate
Run by former career spies, the unit sought to project Russia's “soft power” across the post-Soviet space, with lavish spending but lackluster results.
We've just had a special weekend email from the Russian troll factory (they usually email us their latest fake videos Monday to Friday, so this is out of character), and they're all about Charlie Kirk. Unusually, they've also posted them on Truth Social, which they don't usually do in my experience.
13.09.2025 09:09 — 👍 869 🔁 290 💬 15 📌 12
The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI crossover disinformation campaign targets Ukraine.
The campaign alleges that Ukraine is using civilians to clear the minefields.
x.com/IvankaNews_/... .
In our new disinformation update: Storm-1516 goes on a spree of campaigns, which are impersonating the websites and reportage from the real media outlets: France TV, OK! USA and Correctiv
01.09.2025 13:44 — 👍 4 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0I recently read an op-ed calling for the creation of an "informational deterrence".
I mean… really?
Interesting (and worrying) to observe a similar trend among certain private actors in France regarding the perceived need to develop capacities to carry out offensive actions in order to "protect democracies".
28.08.2025 13:47 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Graphika’s new report, Falsos Amigos, is out today!
It looks at a network of domains and social media accounts using AI tools to launder reports from Chinese state media outlet CGTN and put out primarily pro-China, anti-West content.
To access the full report: graphika.com/reports/fals...
We’re kicking off this year’s OSoMe Awesome Speakers with Patrick Warren!
📅 September 12 | 12pm ET
🎤 Talk: Measuring the Impact of a Large State-Sponsored Narrative-Laundering Campaign: The case of the Storm-1516 attack on Zelensky
🔗 iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Dozens of anonymous X accounts advocating for Scotland's independence went silent after Iran lost power following Israel's strikes: ukdefencejournal.org.uk/dozens-of-pr...
29.06.2025 06:57 — 👍 59 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 4
What seems to be the first known Storm-1516 disinformation campaign to target Norway.
The campaign alleges mass death of wildlife in the Nitelva river in Norway due to high concentration of deuterium.
x.com/Partisangirl...
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