A Kremlin-aligned network called Doppelganger has used faked versions of real news sites to push both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel disinformation.

Over the past week, a disinformation campaign operated by the Kremlin-aligned network Doppelganger amassed over 130,000 views on X, according to data shared exclusively with WIRED by Antibot4Navalny, a collective of anonymous Russian researchers who have spent years tracking the Russian influence operation.

Doppelganger is well known for using a network of inauthentic bot accounts to spread links to fake versions of real news websites. In the past, the network has impersonated websites as diverse as Le Monde in France and Fox News in the US. In recent months, the Doppelganger network has been used to stoke tensions in the US over the border crisis in Texas and boost false claims that celebrities like Taylor Swift were supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

  • ZombiFrancisEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Moreso, the position on Israel that America has been holding is doing more to weaken and isolate the US internationally than anything Russia could ever have dreamed.

    I mean they’re well of the political radioactivity they can inject to any issue with a few chatbots and an email to american news outlets.

    • awwwyissss@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Good point, I hadn’t considered that.

      I can’t help but wonder what the Kremlin knew about the October 7 attack. I suspect their allies in Tehran coordinated with them to some extent.