https://vsquare.org/leaked-files-put...tory-of-fakes/Leaked Files from Putin’s Troll Factory: How Russia Manipulated European Elections
Leaked internal do ents from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center reveal how a well-coordinated Russian campaign supported far-right parties in the European Parliament elections — and planted disinformation across social media platforms to undermine Ukraine.
In a video resembling a movie trailer, the head of Russia’s secret propaganda project, Ilya Gambashidze, removes his sunglasses and sits behind a computer, wearing a camouflage-patterned hoodie with the words “Russian Ideological Troops” spelled out on his sleeve. Text flashes on the screen: “Narrative production, content creation, 300 media outlets, 20 think tanks…” The video, part of a leak from Russia’s IT organization Social Design Agency (SDA), appears to be aimed at partners interested in their information operations services.
“Gambashidze is responsible for numerous projects in various countries,” a source connected to EU intelligence told us. The organization and Gambashidze are already sanctioned both in the EU and the U.S.
Amid the ongoing full-scale war in Ukraine, the Russian presidential administration has emerged as a key client of SDA. Recently, the U.S Department of Justice and FBI revealed that Russian officials, including Sergei Kiriyenko, the Russian presidential administration’s chief of staff and often referred to as Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man, have attended several project meetings with Gambashidze. (We exposed his role in supervising influence operations in our previous investigative series, #KremlinLeaks). Sofia Zakharova, another staffer in Putin’s administration, is also a frequent participant in these meetings.
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The scale of disinformation production is astonishing. A leaked report claims that in the first four months of 2024, the SDA’s bot army, dubbed the “Russian Digital Army,” generated 33.9 million comments. They also claim to have produced 39,899 “content units” on social media, including 4,641 videos and 2,516 memes and graphics.
Clear quotas are set. For example, in one project targeting Germany and France, the quotas were as follows: “Cartoons – 60 units. Memes – 180 units. Article comments – 400.”
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Soon, this disinformation narrative was even spread by some U.S. politicians, such as Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a congresswoman from the state of Georgia.
The SDA team also highlights Greene in a U.S.-focused do ent, explaining how their information operations are picked up by influential figures in the U.S. The do ent includes a link to an article from Breitbart, a far-right U.S. news outlet, in which Greene indicates that weapons supplied by the United States to Ukraine have reached Hamas.
The same do ent indicates that reducing U.S. support for Ukraine can be achieved by contrasting it with the American economic situation.
“The question ‘where is our money going?’ should be the most frequent in the comments section,” the do ent says.
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If we gave away America then we wouldn’t have a country. The budget wouldn’t mean at that point.
Not the whole thing. Just negotiated concessions to whomever wants it.
Concessions of our territory? Why? Just because I don’t want to pay for Ukraine’s war anymore?
Pay down the debt.
Isn't that important to you?
Ukraine!
Not more important than U.S. territory.
We don’t live in isolation anymore as much as Trump wants to believe it. Buy only US and inflation goes through the roof.
The EU is our 3rd largest trading partner and contains governments attempting to follow democratic principles.
If the US is unconcerned about trade, the budget AND democracy, you definitely want to have nothing to do with Ukraine.
You sure don't act like it tbh.
We're concerned about those things, but we can't fix every global problem by throwing money at it.
We've done more than our fair share already.
Huhhraaaaahhhh!!
Huhhraaaaahhhh!!
tater
My man is on suicide watch after the last 24 hours
Imagine being the 2nd greatest army in the world and pouring all your men and materiel against a vastly smaller foe and being farther away from your goal than you were 2 weeks into the war.
Now imagine you’re deep into Year 3 of said war and have exhausted all your weapons reserves to the point you need welfare ammunition from Iran and North Korea just to maintain simple attacks.
And after all that, imagine not being able to protect your own country from occupation or having its fuel storages and weapons depots taken out by drones made of U-Haul boxes and micromachines toy parts.
Anybody else getting Baghdad Bob flashbacks?
When the doom loop of Russian propaganda bites you in the ass
Wow
What a meldown
Kursk must have hurt
Explain what's wrong with Kursk...you keep having a conversation with yourselfWow
What a meldown
Kursk must have hurt
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