Days before the federal elections in Germany, a report suggests that Russian robots have led to an impressive wave of misinformation on social media platforms, in X specific X, previously known as Twitter. According to a report through the German Foreign Affairs Office, received through Political, halfway to the efforts to influence the electorate is Doppelgänger, an operation supported through the Kremlin.
According to the report, the Russian crusade uses fake news sites, sleeping accounts and content generated through AI to dissemin They have already followed the highly coordinated tactics of Doppelgänger.
The report indicated that German officials have known more than one hundred Pseudo-New Internet sites that discreetly collect deceptive and misleading content for months. “These platforms are structured in the same way, full of generic articles and generated through AI,” said an official, who was concerned about the realization of the political report, under the anonymity canopy.
“At a selected moment, a manufactured story is inserted and then extends temporarily through social networks and influencers. We will have to assume that these sites have been ready to be activated when the Bundestag elections approached, “added the manager.
The German officials said that these sleeper websites usually mimic legitimate news outlets and remain inactive until a politically sensitive moment. When these moments take the social media by storm they begin publishing false stories that eventually spread through their coordinated social media networks.
In recent years, the European government has blamed Moscow for interfering in elections in several elections. In the past, the Czech and Belgian governments have damaged a core network of influence that they say pro-Kremlin propaganda in last year’s European Parliament polls say. He has also been accused of influencing Romania’s presidential election in December last year, which was canceled after Romanian security facilities warned that Russia had set the hybrid attacks “aggressive. “
The German elections are not loose for the influence, because the population is concerned with the excessive correct choice game for Germany (AFD), favorable to Russia and supported through Elon Musk. ‘Excessive right, known for its radical ideologies, is lately in the position at the moment in opinion surveys.
Previously, Internet sites related to Doppelgänger cloning exits such as Der Spiegel, changing domain names to idiots who do not follow. January.
The government said that coordinated misinformation stations had to seem in social media sites at a much greater frequency. The report indicates: “This overload strategy (floods social networks with immediate publications to make ghost of viral traction) is a characteristic of Russian misinformation campaigns. “
The government also said that the content of the publication followed a transparent pattern. These publications pointed to Germany’s help for Ukraine, claiming that Berlin is prioritizing Kiev over his own citizens. An example documented in the report was a publication that described a manufactured corruption scandal. The Minister of Economy, Robert Habeck, and a “Minister of Ukrainian Culture”.
According to the report, the false history was planted on an online page to sleep in January and then expanded in a few hours through many X accounts. It also discovered that the electoral interference wave seemed to be highly automated with several false accounts with The same intervals.
In the Gentile of this report, German officials said they intensified their counter-directory efforts, shared data with foreign partners and contemplating the sanctions and the public allocation of the campaign networks.
With the entries of the agencies.