Two sets of three, one on BlueSky, and one on X.

This was the first time dTeam observed Matryoshka accounts using full deep fakes.

Mal besaß sie angeblich eine Villa im Wert von 15 Millionen Dollar, mal eine 150.000-Dollar-Handtasche, mal Offshore-Firmen. Angeblich hat sie sich sogar den »Markt für Kirchenausrüstung« unter den Nagel gerissen. Vor allem aber wird ihr Kinderhandel angedichtet. www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...

In the middle of a hot war you don't ask your allies to leave the battlefield.

I couldn't disagree more. Elected democratic officials should not leave X.

Raccoons are completely normal and 100% ok, it is the humans that are the problem.

📑 Read my and @marcowenjones.bsky.social' report on the influence operation at [ sites.google.com/view/theqata... ].

4/ I found > 130 compromised pages covering fake news hubs, celebrity fan pages, and entertainment profiles. Most pages are run from Vietnam, with connections to the Philippines, Indonesia, Morocco, and Pakistan. There are likely hundreds more - perhaps thousands.

11/ The network farms engagement with manipulative ads.E.g.
👉 "If you love Jesus, press this thumb"
👉 "If you respect veterans, click here"
These "press the thumb" posts prey on low digital literacy and emotional reflexes—turning faith and patriotism into cheap engagement fuel

13/ The real danger isn’t that everyone believes the disinfo. It’s that enough people do, and the volume is so high it pollutes the platform, pollutes discourse, and normalizes AI-slop. As this AI post of Musk with puppies shows, many people don't know/care its AI and disinfo