Colin Gerard
@colingerard.bsky.social
Personal account
Team Leader @viginum.bsky.social
PhD in Geopolitics @univ-paris8.fr
Researcher @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social
Russian FP, IOs, OSINT investigations
Latest publication: https://therussiaprogram.org/russia_information_influence
Team Leader @viginum.bsky.social
PhD in Geopolitics @univ-paris8.fr
Researcher @ifgeopolitique.bsky.social
Russian FP, IOs, OSINT investigations
Latest publication: https://therussiaprogram.org/russia_information_influence
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Le ministère des Armées a démenti ce vendredi des « accusations » de corruption des hautes autorités militaires françaises. Derrière cette attaque, l’État-major a identifié des caractéristiques du mode opératoire du réseau d’influence russe Storm-1516.
Le ministère des Armées dénonce une opération de désinformation prorusse ciblant la France, sur fond de « corruption » avec l’Ukraine
l.leparisien.fr
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Le ministère des Armées a démenti ce vendredi des « accusations » de corruption des hautes autorités militaires françaises. Derrière cette attaque, l’État-major a identifié des caractéristiques du mode opératoire du réseau d’influence russe Storm-1516.
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As Bluesky grows, providers of illicit social media services known as "SMM panels" (social media marketing panels) have used the platform to advertise their offerings with increasing frequency. Over the last year, dozens of accounts promoting SMM panels and their services have popped up on Bluesky.
January 25, 2026 at 4:06 PM
As Bluesky grows, providers of illicit social media services known as "SMM panels" (social media marketing panels) have used the platform to advertise their offerings with increasing frequency. Over the last year, dozens of accounts promoting SMM panels and their services have popped up on Bluesky.
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📖| Des mains rouges dans les rues de Paris : un petit acte de vandalisme au service d’une grande stratégie russe
lerubicon.org/des-mains-ro...
lerubicon.org/des-mains-ro...
Des mains rouges dans les rues de Paris : un petit acte de vandalisme au service d’une grande stratégie russe
En mai 2024, des agents russes ont vandalisé le Mémorial de la Shoah à Paris avec des mains rouges, révélant une stratégie de déstabilisation mêlant opérations clandestines et désinformation. Leur pro...
lerubicon.org
January 23, 2026 at 8:22 PM
📖| Des mains rouges dans les rues de Paris : un petit acte de vandalisme au service d’une grande stratégie russe
lerubicon.org/des-mains-ro...
lerubicon.org/des-mains-ro...
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Détection de coordination, détection de #deepfakes, biais et vulnérabilités des algorithmes de recommandation...
@viginum.bsky.social et #INRIA lancent un prix scientifique de lutte contre les manipulations de l'information.
👉 pvi-lmi.sciencescall.org
Deadline le 14/02.
#disinfo #FIMI
@viginum.bsky.social et #INRIA lancent un prix scientifique de lutte contre les manipulations de l'information.
👉 pvi-lmi.sciencescall.org
Deadline le 14/02.
#disinfo #FIMI
Prix Viginum - Inria « Lutte contre les manipulations de l'information » - Sciencesconf.org
Le Prix VIGINUM-Inria
pvi-lmi.sciencescall.org
January 23, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Détection de coordination, détection de #deepfakes, biais et vulnérabilités des algorithmes de recommandation...
@viginum.bsky.social et #INRIA lancent un prix scientifique de lutte contre les manipulations de l'information.
👉 pvi-lmi.sciencescall.org
Deadline le 14/02.
#disinfo #FIMI
@viginum.bsky.social et #INRIA lancent un prix scientifique de lutte contre les manipulations de l'information.
👉 pvi-lmi.sciencescall.org
Deadline le 14/02.
#disinfo #FIMI
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Dans le cadre de ses travaux relatifs à l’élaboration et l’adoption d’une grammaire commune permettant de décrire la menace informationnelle, @viginum.bsky.social emploie, depuis le début de l’année 2025, le concept de «mode opératoire informationnel» (MOI, ou IMS «information Manipulation Set»).
Définitions et objectifs du concept de « mode opératoire informationnel » (MOI) | SGDSN
Dans le cadre de ses travaux relatifs à l’élaboration et l’adoption d’une grammaire commune permettant de décrire la menace informationnelle, VIGINUM emploie, depuis le début de l’année 2025, le conce...
www.sgdsn.gouv.fr
January 22, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Dans le cadre de ses travaux relatifs à l’élaboration et l’adoption d’une grammaire commune permettant de décrire la menace informationnelle, @viginum.bsky.social emploie, depuis le début de l’année 2025, le concept de «mode opératoire informationnel» (MOI, ou IMS «information Manipulation Set»).
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🛠️ Killing the supply chain: applying the IMS framework to Russian FIMI.
Any doubt on how?
🗓️ Thursday 22 January | 14:30 CET
Join our private webinar on building a common operational picture of FIMI.
🔗 Registration with a professional email address is required us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Any doubt on how?
🗓️ Thursday 22 January | 14:30 CET
Join our private webinar on building a common operational picture of FIMI.
🔗 Registration with a professional email address is required us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 21, 2026 at 9:13 AM
🛠️ Killing the supply chain: applying the IMS framework to Russian FIMI.
Any doubt on how?
🗓️ Thursday 22 January | 14:30 CET
Join our private webinar on building a common operational picture of FIMI.
🔗 Registration with a professional email address is required us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Any doubt on how?
🗓️ Thursday 22 January | 14:30 CET
Join our private webinar on building a common operational picture of FIMI.
🔗 Registration with a professional email address is required us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Sur X, des comptes identifiés par les autorités françaises comme pro-iraniens ne postent plus depuis le black-out imposé par le régime de Téhéran. Un phénomène également observé au Royaume-Uni. Avec @vincentcoquaz.bsky.social @checknews.bsky.social @liberation.fr www.liberation.fr/checknews/su...
Sur X, des profils «patriotes» francophones ont cessé d’émettre depuis la coupure d’Internet en Iran
Des comptes identifiés par les autorités françaises comme pro-iraniens ne postent plus depuis le black-out imposé par le régime de Téhéran. Un phénomène également observé au Royaume-Uni.
www.liberation.fr
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Sur X, des comptes identifiés par les autorités françaises comme pro-iraniens ne postent plus depuis le black-out imposé par le régime de Téhéran. Un phénomène également observé au Royaume-Uni. Avec @vincentcoquaz.bsky.social @checknews.bsky.social @liberation.fr www.liberation.fr/checknews/su...
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💡Big step forward for clarity/coordination across counter-Russian influence space.
💡Also a big update for Russian hostile actors - hi, VPN readers 😌
If you track Russia’s hostile activities in the info space, this is the paper you should’ve read yesterday. Today will do!
💡Also a big update for Russian hostile actors - hi, VPN readers 😌
If you track Russia’s hostile activities in the info space, this is the paper you should’ve read yesterday. Today will do!
Doppelganger, Overload, Storm-1516, Undercut 😵💫
Lost in translation when it comes to Russian information manipulation campaigns targeting the EU – and what can actually be done about them?
🧵⬇️
Lost in translation when it comes to Russian information manipulation campaigns targeting the EU – and what can actually be done about them?
🧵⬇️
January 16, 2026 at 12:19 PM
💡Big step forward for clarity/coordination across counter-Russian influence space.
💡Also a big update for Russian hostile actors - hi, VPN readers 😌
If you track Russia’s hostile activities in the info space, this is the paper you should’ve read yesterday. Today will do!
💡Also a big update for Russian hostile actors - hi, VPN readers 😌
If you track Russia’s hostile activities in the info space, this is the paper you should’ve read yesterday. Today will do!
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Doppelganger, Overload, Storm-1516, Undercut 😵💫
Lost in translation when it comes to Russian information manipulation campaigns targeting the EU – and what can actually be done about them?
🧵⬇️
Lost in translation when it comes to Russian information manipulation campaigns targeting the EU – and what can actually be done about them?
🧵⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Doppelganger, Overload, Storm-1516, Undercut 😵💫
Lost in translation when it comes to Russian information manipulation campaigns targeting the EU – and what can actually be done about them?
🧵⬇️
Lost in translation when it comes to Russian information manipulation campaigns targeting the EU – and what can actually be done about them?
🧵⬇️
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Cooperation is a countermeasure.
I'm very proud we have coordinated that collective work with fantastic partners, which aims at better focusing on IMS and supply chain of disinfo.
Thanks to @checkfirst.network, @viginum.bsky.social, @diplo.de, Cassini, @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, @dfrlab.bsky.social
I'm very proud we have coordinated that collective work with fantastic partners, which aims at better focusing on IMS and supply chain of disinfo.
Thanks to @checkfirst.network, @viginum.bsky.social, @diplo.de, Cassini, @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, @dfrlab.bsky.social
Doppelganger, Overload, Storm-1516, Undercut 😵💫
Lost in translation when it comes to Russian information manipulation campaigns targeting the EU – and what can actually be done about them?
🧵⬇️
Lost in translation when it comes to Russian information manipulation campaigns targeting the EU – and what can actually be done about them?
🧵⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Cooperation is a countermeasure.
I'm very proud we have coordinated that collective work with fantastic partners, which aims at better focusing on IMS and supply chain of disinfo.
Thanks to @checkfirst.network, @viginum.bsky.social, @diplo.de, Cassini, @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, @dfrlab.bsky.social
I'm very proud we have coordinated that collective work with fantastic partners, which aims at better focusing on IMS and supply chain of disinfo.
Thanks to @checkfirst.network, @viginum.bsky.social, @diplo.de, Cassini, @eudiplomacy.bsky.social, @dfrlab.bsky.social
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What if we adopted a common approach to documenting, attributing and responding to #disinformation campaigns?
Let's find out!
🔗https://www.disinfo.eu/building-a-common-operational-picture-of-fimi
Let's find out!
🔗https://www.disinfo.eu/building-a-common-operational-picture-of-fimi
January 15, 2026 at 10:31 AM
What if we adopted a common approach to documenting, attributing and responding to #disinformation campaigns?
Let's find out!
🔗https://www.disinfo.eu/building-a-common-operational-picture-of-fimi
Let's find out!
🔗https://www.disinfo.eu/building-a-common-operational-picture-of-fimi
Very happy to see this report being released. First, because it is the result of an effective cooperation between institutional actors and civil society, but also because it gives concrete form to the relevance of the IMS concept developed by VIGINUM. Congrats to @disinfo.eu and all our partners!
En s'appuyant sur le concept de « mode opératoire informationnel » (MOI) développé par VIGINUM, EU DisinfoLab publie ce jour le rapport « Building a common operational picture of FIMI: Using IMS to strenghten technical attribuation and disruption ».
➡️ www.disinfo.eu/building-a-c...
➡️ www.disinfo.eu/building-a-c...
January 15, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Very happy to see this report being released. First, because it is the result of an effective cooperation between institutional actors and civil society, but also because it gives concrete form to the relevance of the IMS concept developed by VIGINUM. Congrats to @disinfo.eu and all our partners!
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Yevgeny Primakov Jr. confirms a “well-known PMC” opened several Russian Houses in Africa in nod to Wagner Group
Two of the “houses” in question are in Mali and the Central African Republic, where the governments were known for cooperating with Wagner.
Two of the “houses” in question are in Mali and the Central African Republic, where the governments were known for cooperating with Wagner.
Yevgeny Primakov Jr. confirms a “well-known PMC” opened several Russian Houses in Africa in nod to Wagner Group
Yevgeny Primakov Jr., head of Rossotrudnichestvo — the Russian “Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation”...
theins.press
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Yevgeny Primakov Jr. confirms a “well-known PMC” opened several Russian Houses in Africa in nod to Wagner Group
Two of the “houses” in question are in Mali and the Central African Republic, where the governments were known for cooperating with Wagner.
Two of the “houses” in question are in Mali and the Central African Republic, where the governments were known for cooperating with Wagner.
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Tribune parue ce jour dans @liberation.fr :
Ce que la cyberattaque contre La Poste Groupe nous dit de la stratégie russe de « harcèlement géopolitique » de l’Europe (et de ses faiblesses).
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Ce que la cyberattaque contre La Poste Groupe nous dit de la stratégie russe de « harcèlement géopolitique » de l’Europe (et de ses faiblesses).
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Cyberattaque contre la Poste : un révélateur de la «guerre hybride» menée par la Russie
L’objectif de l’attaque revendiquée par le groupe de hackers NoName057 (016) est probablement de chercher à exagérer la capacité de nuisance de la Russie, analyse Kevin Limonier, professeur à l’Instit...
www.liberation.fr
January 4, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Tribune parue ce jour dans @liberation.fr :
Ce que la cyberattaque contre La Poste Groupe nous dit de la stratégie russe de « harcèlement géopolitique » de l’Europe (et de ses faiblesses).
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
Ce que la cyberattaque contre La Poste Groupe nous dit de la stratégie russe de « harcèlement géopolitique » de l’Europe (et de ses faiblesses).
www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...
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"Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, "the European Commission rules
Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say." www.science.org/content/arti...
Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say." www.science.org/content/arti...
December 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers’ access to data, "the European Commission rules
Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say." www.science.org/content/arti...
Data are needed to study how social media spreads misinformation and influences elections, scientists say." www.science.org/content/arti...
Touadera’s outfit is legendary. The guy was literally wearing a suit with his own face on it.
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Touadera’s outfit is legendary. The guy was literally wearing a suit with his own face on it.
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Aujourd’hui dans @lafabriquedelinfo.bsky.social on s’intéresse aux méthodes d’OSINT, comment investiguer dans l’espace numérique ! 14h sur @franceculture.fr
Invités ci dessous plus la chronique de @courrierinter.bsky.social ✨
Invités ci dessous plus la chronique de @courrierinter.bsky.social ✨
December 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Aujourd’hui dans @lafabriquedelinfo.bsky.social on s’intéresse aux méthodes d’OSINT, comment investiguer dans l’espace numérique ! 14h sur @franceculture.fr
Invités ci dessous plus la chronique de @courrierinter.bsky.social ✨
Invités ci dessous plus la chronique de @courrierinter.bsky.social ✨
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Éric Bataillon, une grande voix de RFI s'éteint
Éric Bataillon, une grande voix de RFI s'éteint
Nous rendons hommage à notre confrère le journaliste Éric Bataillon qui nous a quittés ce samedi 20 décembre à l'âge de 70 ans. Éric Bataillon était un pilier de la rédaction à Radio France Internationale jusqu'à son départ à la retraite il y a deux ans.
rfi.my
December 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Éric Bataillon, une grande voix de RFI s'éteint
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‼️Disinformation and physical propaganda. Austrian intelligence uncovered a large-scale Russian disinformation campaign. www.profil.at/investigativ...
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
‼️Disinformation and physical propaganda. Austrian intelligence uncovered a large-scale Russian disinformation campaign. www.profil.at/investigativ...
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Que penser de la DGSI qui rempile avec Palantir au moment même où l'entreprise américaine s'affiche comme le bras armé du trumpisme et forge une théorie de l'Etat qui vise à privatiser le régalien ? "La solution sera temporaire", jurait le patron du service, il y a... dix ans.
December 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Que penser de la DGSI qui rempile avec Palantir au moment même où l'entreprise américaine s'affiche comme le bras armé du trumpisme et forge une théorie de l'Etat qui vise à privatiser le régalien ? "La solution sera temporaire", jurait le patron du service, il y a... dix ans.
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1/ Yesterday’s Q2-Q3 Adversarial Threat Report by Meta was interesting in many ways. For us @citizenlab.ca, it was a blast from the past.
For the first time, Meta’s investigators attributed what in 2019 we had named Endless Mayfly - a relentless, sophisticated influence op targeting Iran’s enemies.
For the first time, Meta’s investigators attributed what in 2019 we had named Endless Mayfly - a relentless, sophisticated influence op targeting Iran’s enemies.
Burned After Reading: Endless Mayfly’s Ephemeral Disinformation Campaign - The Citizen Lab
Using Endless Mayfly as an illustration, this highlights the challenges of investigating & addressing disinformation from research & policy perspectives.
citizenlab.ca
December 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
1/ Yesterday’s Q2-Q3 Adversarial Threat Report by Meta was interesting in many ways. For us @citizenlab.ca, it was a blast from the past.
For the first time, Meta’s investigators attributed what in 2019 we had named Endless Mayfly - a relentless, sophisticated influence op targeting Iran’s enemies.
For the first time, Meta’s investigators attributed what in 2019 we had named Endless Mayfly - a relentless, sophisticated influence op targeting Iran’s enemies.
Tout mon soutien aux collègues visés par cette plainte honteuse.
Le retour de flamme n'aura pas tardé : Frédéric Martel annonce une plainte en diffamation contre l'ensemble des signataires de cette tribune.
Un ultranationaliste russe sur France Culture : Frédéric Martel se défend de faire le jeu du Kremlin
Dans une tribune publiée dans “Libération” le 10 décembre, des chercheurs fustigent l’interview de l’idéologue d’extrême droite Alexandre Douguine par Frédéric Martel dans “Soft Power”. Le producteur,...
www.telerama.fr
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Tout mon soutien aux collègues visés par cette plainte honteuse.
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USA is prosecuting Russian state supported cyber operations of CyberArmyofRussia (CARR) and NoName057(16). $2 million for information leading to the identification or location of CARR (GRU). www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
USA is prosecuting Russian state supported cyber operations of CyberArmyofRussia (CARR) and NoName057(16). $2 million for information leading to the identification or location of CARR (GRU). www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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Pretty big ⚡️: la justice US confirme la filiation entre l’état russe et 2 groupes (prétendument) hacktivistes, NoName057(16) et Cyber Army of Russia Reborn. En clair, le GRU a donc soutenu des cyberattaques contre des systèmes de traitement des eaux 🇺🇸… www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
Justice Department Announces Actions to Combat Two Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Criminal Hacking Groups
The Justice Department announced two indictments in the Central District of California charging Ukrainian national Victoria Eduardovna Dubranova, 33, also known as Vika, Tory, and SovaSonya, for her r...
www.justice.gov
December 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Pretty big ⚡️: la justice US confirme la filiation entre l’état russe et 2 groupes (prétendument) hacktivistes, NoName057(16) et Cyber Army of Russia Reborn. En clair, le GRU a donc soutenu des cyberattaques contre des systèmes de traitement des eaux 🇺🇸… www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...