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French organization fighting against foreign digital interference announced this Monday that it had discovered the network Russian pages created to spread Kremlin propaganda in Europe and the USA.
French organization fighting against foreign digital interference announced this Monday that it had discovered the network Russian pages created to spread Kremlin propaganda in Europe and the USA.
Service Viginum He indicated that the network, “structured and coordinated”, was created for audiences in the US and Europe.
Call “Combat Portal”According to the government agency, which examined the portals from September to December 2023, this network includes 193 web pages with very similar information to each other. The pages disseminate “pro-Russian content intended for an international audience,” especially in countries that support Ukraine, the agency indicated.
There is a word on several portals “Truth” [“verdad”, en ruso] as a domain name and have a different code depending on the language. For example, the page intended for reading in Spain is called pravda-es.com. For English-speaking countries it is pravda-en.com, and in France it is pravda-fr.com.
From June 23 to September 19 these pages published more than 15 thousand articlesmainly based on statements, media or publications of Russian or pro-Russian figures, indicates Viginum.
The French agency found that another 180 pages linked digitally to the Pravda network disseminate similar content in Russian.
He The purpose of “Combat Portal” is to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine.This was reported by a French diplomatic source who issued a warning.
These materials, highly ideologically oriented, reveal clearly inaccurate or misleading narratives.
In January, France accused Russia of launching a new disinformation campaign after it said Paris was financing of mercenaries in the former Soviet republic.
On January 17, the Russian Ministry of Defense said the army attacked a building where “French mercenaries” were stationed in Kharkov, Ukraine’s second city. The French Foreign Ministry denied the presence of mercenaries in Ukraine, and Moscow’s claim was refuted days later by French volunteers on the ground.
While this and other narratives created by Russian sites have had little impact on French social media, “some of the content could harm the fundamental interests of the nation,” he said. Viginum. A military source warned that there is a possibility that the Combat Portal pages will be published again in the future.
Another strategy called ‘Matrioska’, is to write directly to media outlets online to encourage them to fact-check false information. According to experts, the goal is to exhaust journalists with verification [fact-checkers] Westerners.
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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