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Kremlin fakes: The Russian Federation has launched misinformation through the clones of well -known media - The Insider

Pseudonym articles on the "fast defeat of Ukraine" were distributed on the social network X, signed on Kazakh accounts and Ilona Mask. The social network X is spreading publications, the leading topic of which - Ukrainians should demand from the Kiev authorities to start negotiations with Russia about the truce. About it writes The Insider. The massive attack of bots, which began on October 25, noticed the Project "Bott".

According to the analysts of the project, for several hours fake posts were published at a speed of 2. 5 tweet per minute, which indicates an automated and therefore inexpensive mechanism of misinformation. The materials were published on the clones of well -known Ukrainian and Western news publications, and then repointed with bots on the platform X.

In fake articles, readers were told that "the defeat of Ukraine is close", "Israel will delay all attention, and Ukraine will get rid of military assistance", "Ukrainian government He sends people to a meat grinder to keep power. " On the same day, several cities of Ukraine took place "for demobilization", which participated in a small number of women with the same posters. The publication analyzed the information collected by the "block blocker" and confirmed the conclusions of the analysts.

Clones of such well -known Western editions such as Welt, Fox News, Le Parisien, Spiegel and Walla were created for this misinformation campaign. The materials aimed at the Western audience were published in Hebrew, English, French and German. Each account that was involved in this attack attack, in the history of publications, only a few posts or haphazard answers to any publications. Each such post contains a link to the pseudosity site.

The publication notes that "Hackers from the game practice throwing misinformation and phishing attacks" with the help of such false sites is not the first year. And according to analysts of the "boot blocker", the materials for this campaign were written to the Kremlin. Journalists point to several signs that suggest that Russia is behind this campaign. Among them: recall, the special services of the Russian Federation prepared an information attack against Rustem Umerov.