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«The network, we concluded, is made up of at least 90 TikTok accounts - some masquerading as news outlets - which have posted thousands of videos totalling more than 23 million views and 860,000 likes since January. Moldova's population is just 2.4 million.»

#Moldova #elections #Russia #infops #EU
romanad.bsky.social Roman A. @romanad.bsky.social · Sep 21
In-depth investigation from the BBC, which infiltrated a disinformation operation to interfere in the Moldovan elections.

This operation is coordinated remotely by pro-Russian actors through Telegram.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How Russian-funded fake news network aims to disrupt European election - BBC investigation
An undercover reporter discovers a network is offering to pay for social media posts undermining Moldova’s ruling party.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
sohandsouza.info
〝The accounts Graphika identified bore many hallmarks of Spamouflage activity, including coordinated posting and sharing content that has previously been linked to the operation. Some accounts occasionally slipped up and posted in Chinese.〞
#TikTok #platforms #Spamouflage #PRC #USA #infops #China
September 5, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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#OSINT #UK #riots #infops #disinfo #platforms #socialMedia
Exposing Online Mass Manipulation: How Influence Operations Sparked UKRiots
Join us at CLH Talks to uncover the truth behind online mass manipulation and how it ignited riots in the UK.
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September 5, 2024 at 10:29 AM
sohandsouza.info
«Of the forty-six accounts that participated in the campaign, twenty-nine identified as “influencers” in their bios on X. One influencer expressed a willingness to participate in social media campaigns and posted a graphic outlining her rates in 2022.»
#Russia #Ukraine #Zelenskyy #propaganda #infops
May 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
sohandsouza.info
«Authoritarian regimes may use the disinformation weapon skillfully, but they must not forget that such systems are built on sustained deception—a model that may eventually rot from within.»

#disinfo #infops #propaganda #Russia #China #Europe #socialMedia
August 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
sohandsouza.info
〝In addition to the videos, researchers and government officials say, Russia has created a handful of fake American local news sites and is using them to push out Kremlin propaganda, interspersed with stories about crime, politics and culture.〞
#disinformation #Russia #Ukraine #media #infops
Russian Disinformation Videos Smear Biden Ahead of U.S. Election
Many of the videos are trying to appeal to right-wing voters with fake messages about President Biden, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2024 at 2:36 PM
sohandsouza.info
〝"These are bots definitely," he said of non-political dormant accounts that appear to belong to a lady with a nail salon, or someone who comments on football or cars, and which suddenly begin to post political content and get thousands of views.〞

#Romania #elections #infops #TikTok #Telegram
Romania braces for wave of disinformation ahead of election second round
Romania faces a wave of online disinformation ahead of a presidential election runoff this month in which the hard-right looks poised for victory, election observers and analysts say.
www.reuters.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
sohandsouza.info
“The campaign is designed to demobilize diaspora voters — encouraging them to stay home — and to manipulate those who do vote into supporting a fake pro-EU force. Disguised to imitate the look and tone of legitimate European media outlets […]”

#Moldova #EU #Russia #infops #disinfo #elections
politico.eu POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Aug 4
Russia is ramping up efforts to influence Moldovans living abroad across Europe to try to sway critical elections next month, the EU candidate country’s security chief has warned.
Russia targeting voters across EU, Moldova warns
Moscow is hoping pro-European Moldovans living abroad don’t go out to vote in September’s elections, the country’s national security chief told POLITICO.
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August 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
sohandsouza.info
MON 6:30PM: 🇬🇧🕵️🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 Less than a week to go.

#UK #infops #misinfo #OSINT #SOCMINT #London
sohandsouza.info Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · Sep 2
MON SEP/15: 🇬🇧🕵️🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 I'll be at wearebcs.bsky.social (BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT) London, presenting observations from my infop/misinfo investigations, with OSINT/SOCMINT basics.
Details and registration (in-person or online) at www.bcs.org/events-calen...

#UK #infops #misinfo #OSINT #SOCMINT
September 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
sohandsouza.info
With more sophisticated AI tools, and with platform countermeasures and transparency regimes that aren't kept up to speed, the game is increasingly weighted in favor of the infops.

#Kremlin #infops #disinfo #USAID #America #Xitter #platforms
willoremus.com Will Oremus @willoremus.com · May 6
An AI-fueled Russian disinfo op was struggling to get any traction — until it ginned up a fake news video about USAID, earning a repost from Elon Musk.

A look at the 'numbers game' of state-backed disinfo and how AI is tilting the odds in the trolls' favor: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | A Russian fake news ring was struggling. Then it targeted USAID.
An AI-fueled disinfo operation was struggling to catch on until it struck a chord on the right with false claims about USAID
www.washingtonpost.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
sohandsouza.info
〝Knowing who sends funds to the digital advertising market, just like banks do with financial investments, can help limit the flow of dark money in digital advertising, where undisclosed sources funnel money into AdTech without oversight.〞

#darkMoney #infops #disinfo #AdTech #platforms #marketing
carlosdiazruiz.com Carlos Diaz Ruiz @carlosdiazruiz.com · Aug 12
Read my blog post on the disinformation economy. It argues that disinformation, fake news, and conspiracy theories are amplified due to market incentives and business practices, particularly within digital advertising ecosystems. It It is published by @edmo-eu.bsky.social.

edmo.eu/blog/what-is...
What is the Disinformation Economy? (And how to counter it) – EDMO
edmo.eu
August 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
sohandsouza.info
〝All the websites appeared to spread at least a few pro-Iranian fake news or op-ed pieces, such as items praising the Iranian government’s response to recent protests on U.S. college campuses against the war in Gaza.〞

#Iran #disinfo #infops #America #politics #elections
Iranian-linked websites set up targeting US minority, veteran voters
A network of almost two dozen websites with links to Tehran are the latest pro-Iranian effort aimed at swaying specific groups of U.S. voters.
www.politico.com
September 7, 2024 at 9:39 PM
sohandsouza.info
From @bendobrown.bsky.social: 〝The network identified in this research consists of at least 53 identities and more than 100 accounts across platforms. These accounts attempted to bolster their credibility by using believable Sikh names […]〞

#India #socialMedia #infops #inauthentic #CIB #Khalistan
Return of the RealSikhs: the fake network targeting Sikhs across the world despite platform takedowns
A network that labels Sikh activists as "extremists" and attempts to undermine calls for Sikh independence has reappeared on social media.
www.info-res.org
June 14, 2024 at 12:29 PM
sohandsouza.info
"Matrix politics" and influence operations as a service in Russia, with @shekhovtsov.substack.com at UCL SEES.

#Kremlin #Russia #infops #infowar
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 AM
sohandsouza.info
〝In order to avoid de-platforming, sponsored ads and posts containing political content often hyphenated terms, such as “War,” “Macron,” “Putin,” or “Zelensky.” The images used in the ads and posts were often altered; text appears to have been manually erased […]〞

#WestAfrica #infops #Russia
August 20, 2024 at 4:57 PM
sohandsouza.info
🇬🇧🧑‍💻🗯🗳 I just featured in a live stream at @nath-ormond.bsky.social’s channel “Digital Gnosis”, talking about influence operations, misinformation, propaganda, and strategies of political polarisation in the UK.

#infops #misinfo #propaganda #UK #politics #polarization #OSINT #SOCMINT #astroturfing
Far Right Propaganda and Astroturfing w/ Sohan Dsouza
YouTube video by Digital Gnosis
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August 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
sohandsouza.info
At @isdglobal.bsky.social: 〝Before Meta took enforcement action, Patriots Run Project was a network of 26 domains, 10 websites, 15 Facebook pages and 13 linked Facebook groups. […] only street address linked to PRP is a mailbox at a UPS store […]〞

#inauthentic #politics #elections #America #infops
Patriots Run Project network exposes Meta's transparency failures
ISD uncovers a network of Facebook pages, groups, and websites that used coordinated inauthentic behavior and evaded ads transparency policies to encourage pro-Trump, anti-establishment candidates to ...
www.isdglobal.org
June 15, 2024 at 10:55 AM
sohandsouza.info
〝Insikt Group has identified a network named CopyCop that uses AI to manipulate content from legitimate media for political purposes […] crafts and disseminates politically biased content using inauthentic media outlets in the US, UK, and France.〞

#infops #disinformation #propaganda #CopyCop #LLMs
Russia-Linked CopyCop Uses LLMs to Weaponize Influence Content at Scale | Recorded Future
Insikt Group shares research on CopyCop: a Russian-linked network using AI for disinformation to influence US, UK, and French politics. Dive into the details.
www.recordedfuture.com
May 9, 2024 at 9:16 PM
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It's run by @antibot4navalny.bsky.social—a reliable anti-infop account.

#disinformation #infops #Kremlin #propaganda #bots #trolls
antibot4navalny.bsky.social antibot4navalny | bot blocker | блокировщик ботов @antibot4navalny.bsky.social · Jan 3
Russian state disinfo bots are active on BlueSky for over 2 weeks now.
They are posting fake videos using AI-generated voice to promote talking points of Russian state.

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January 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
sohandsouza.info
🚨🗓 Of interest to UK natsec and counter-infops/-disinfo/-FIMI community:
April 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
sohandsouza.info
Watch ongoing election denial infops.
This one also has a bsky presence.
www.memeticwarfare.io/p/this-is-my...

#infops #elections #USA #disinformation
This is my influence operation. There are many like it, but this is mine.
Welcome to a rare weekend edition of Memetic Warfare.
www.memeticwarfare.io
December 22, 2024 at 6:55 PM
sohandsouza.info
Day 3/3 of the workshop on misinformation, influence operations, and open-source intelligence that I've been delivering for the Center for Humans and Machines at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Loved sharing the knowledge here.

#OSINT #infops #misinfo #workshop #Berlin
November 28, 2024 at 1:56 PM
sohandsouza.info
〝In short, the SDA did not keep running campaigns and receiving funding despite being repeatedly exposed. It was able to keep running campaigns precisely because its work was exposed by its adversaries.〞

#Russia #Doppelganger #disinformation #strategy #infops
September 30, 2024 at 7:18 PM
sohandsouza.info
From @bendobrown.bsky.social: 〝[…] influencers’ photos were not just stolen […] but were manipulated to make it look like they were wearing pro-Trump paraphernalia. […] At least 15 of the accounts have the blue tick verification badge.〞

#astroturfing #influencers #Trump #elections #infops #Xitter
Unmasking the fake MAGA accounts: stolen photos and digital lies
Fake accounts posing as young American women are spreading pro-Trump content online, using and manipulating images of European influencers.
www.info-res.org
August 28, 2024 at 3:11 PM
sohandsouza.info
〝For example, some of the channels amplified a false claim that Putin had revealed a long-suppressed secret by the West proving that Jesus was Black. In another example, several channels falsely claimed that Africans can now travel to Russia without a visa.〞

#WestAfrica #infops #Russia #YouTube
dfrlab.bsky.social DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social · Aug 12
@vchatelet.bsky.social has uncovered 20 suspicious YouTube channels mimicking pro-Kremlin & anti-Western content targeting audiences in Africa. These channels are distorting real news with sensationalized, misleading narratives. dfrlab.org/2024/07/29/f...
Fringe YouTube channels promote pro-Kremlin narratives in Africa
Channels attracted millions of views and hundreds of thousands of subscribers by using anti-Western content directed at African audiences
dfrlab.org
August 20, 2024 at 8:18 PM