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According to a report noticed through politician, Ucrinform wrote.
According to the Doppelgänger, an operation by Erglegänger, a German assistance operation, is a disinformation operation on the social media platform, adding that half of the effort to influence German voters, according to German foreign affairs. The Crusade uses fake news sites, sleep accounts, and AI-generated content to spread false stories and erode trust in Western institutions.
Intelligence agencies across the EU and the United States have already followed the “highly coordinated tactics” of Doppelgänger, who sought to undermine Ukraine in its war against Russia and magnify the message tailored to the Kremlin.
German officials identified more than 100 pseudo-news websites quietly accumulating content for months, according to officials.
“These platforms are structured similarly, filled with generic, often AI-generated articles,” one official said. “At a chosen moment, a fabricated story is inserted and then rapidly spread via social media and influencers. We must assume these sites were prepared to be activated in the run-up to the Bundestag election.”
These sleeping websites imitate valid media and are inactive until a political moment of Sunto, such as an election, when they begin to publish false stories that temporarily propagate through coordinated social networks.
In recent years, European authorities have blamed Moscow for interference in a series of elections. Czech and Belgian authorities busted a major influence network they said was spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda in the runup to last year’s European Parliament vote, and in December Romania’s presidential elections were canceled after security services warned Russia was mounting “aggressive” hybrid attacks.
The consultation is delicate of the German elections, where the election of Elon Musk’s right-wing party, followed through Elon Musk, is in the position at the moment in opinion polls.
Doppelgänger-linked websites have previously cloned outlets like Der Spiegel, altering domain names just slightly to deceive unsuspecting readers.
The clearest signal is on Musk X platform, previously Twitter.
The report, reviewed by POLITICO, shows a sharp increase in posts from ghost accounts, with activity spiking beyond 3,000 posts in a single day in late January. For much of November and December, activity remained relatively low, rarely exceeding 50 posts a day. But in early January, coordinated disinformation posts began appearing at a much higher frequency.
This “overload” technique — flooding social media with rapid waves of posts to manufacture the illusion of viral traction — is characteristic of Russian disinformation campaigns.
The posts’ content also follows a clear pattern. Many target Germany’s support for Ukraine, claiming Berlin is prioritizing Kyiv over its own citizens. One example, documented in the report, describes a fabricated corruption scandal involving Economy Minister Robert Habeck and an unnamed “Ukrainian Culture Minister.”
Meanwhile, Berlin is stepping up its counter-terrorism efforts, sharing data with foreign partners and plans to implement sanctions and public allocation of campaign networks.
“We are running in a” cultural replacement “within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” said the political official, referring to the consciousness of expansion of cybercrime. “Ambassadors are increasingly vocal in their host country. This promises that when misinformation extends, they have credibility and networks to clarify the registration. »
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