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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 10h

It's also worth mentioning that both videos, with addition of two another long videos were published by "The Islander" X account

gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 10h

Some of the videos include footage near the same polling stations, which were involved in another possible Storm-1516 narrative
bsky.app/profile/gnid...

gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 11d

First narrative is an alleged report from Verona where the same people allegedly voted in multiple polling stations

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 10h

What seems to be the latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targeting Moldova, the campaign includes several dashcam videos from the apparent foreign polling stations in Italy, which were used for Moldovan parliamentary election

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 20h

The video is also trying to appear as a footage that was sourced from Azerbaijani state security service DTX.
The campaign also links to a previously used fake media website armenianinsider[.]am:
bsky.app/profile/gnid...

gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 9d

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targets Armenia, the campaign is alleging that Armen Grigoryan, the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, killed his father. The campaign is distributed with a link to a recently created fake media website armenianinsider[.]am

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 1d

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Armenia. The campaign includes a video "interrogation" of an alleged cook from Gabustan prison, who was allegedly paid to poison Vicken Euljekjian, an Armenian national, who is currently detained in prison in Azerbaijan.

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 7d

The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI disinformation campaign targets Ukraine once again, the current campaign is alleging that several attacks on Ukrainian cities were false flag operations by the Ukrainian intelligence services

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 7d

The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI disinformation campaign targets Ukraine once again, the current campaign is alleging that several attacks on Ukrainian cities were false flag operations by the Ukrainian intelligence services

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 7d

The alleged "whistleblower" in the video looks somewhat similar to a "whistleblower" from the earlier campaign:
bsky.app/profile/gnid...

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 7d

The publication on the website was made under a stolen identity of a French journalist Benoît Vitkine from Le Monde.

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 7d

The campaign links to a fake media website brutinfo[.]fr, which is likely to pass as a real "Brut" French media outlet, but does not copy the branding exactly. The social media links on the website point to "Brut" accounts.

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 7d

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France and Macron. The campaign is alleging that the French president is building a luxury bunker, which costs 148 million euro.

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 9d

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targets Armenia, the campaign is alleging that Armen Grigoryan, the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, killed his father. The campaign is distributed with a link to a recently created fake media website armenianinsider[.]am

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 9d

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targets Armenia, the campaign is alleging that Armen Grigoryan, the Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, killed his father. The campaign is distributed with a link to a recently created fake media website armenianinsider[.]am

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 9d

Website's technical implementation bears a lot of similarities with the website, which copied Correctiv website in one of the prior campaigns
gnidaproject.substack.com/i/167451459/...

Disinformation update: Moldova in focus, full-blown media impersonations, sanctions, rewards and more

Moldova in focus, Storm-1516's media impersonation gets taken further, EU sanctions against disinformation actors, CGE employees receive Russian government rewards, fondfbr video campaigns and more

gnidaproject.substack.com

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 9d

The campaign is distributed with a link to an imposter website fr-24[.]de, which, together with the video, takes the branding of the German newspaper "Frankfurter Rundschau".

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 9d

The latest Storm-1516 campaign is targeting Germany. The campaign alleges that Germany will accept up to 500 thousands immigrants from UK as a part of the alleged secret protocol to the recent treaty between the two countries.

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 11d

Third is the video, which was also amplified through the "Russia Today" social media accounts which captures the inside of an alleged "carousel voting bug"

gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 11d

Second narrative is the video which captures the alleged vote falsification

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 11d

First narrative is an alleged report from Verona where the same people allegedly voted in multiple polling stations

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 11d

Our team discovered several disinformation narratives, which are being distributed through the Russian telegram channels in relation to the parliamentary election in Moldova, which may associated with Storm-1516; however, there's not enough data to make a confident attribution yet

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 12d

The campaign is in line with the already established playbook, which includes the videos with the destruction of ballots which have the "wrong" votes in order to raise the doubts about the election's integrity:
gnidaproject.substack.com/i/163239385/...
gnidaproject.substack.com/i/150958490/...

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 12d

Most likely the latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targeting the upcoming parliamentary election in Moldova.

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 13d

Full report is available here: gnidaproject.substack.com/p/disinforma...

gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 13d

And the review of the recent Storm-1516 and R-FBI campaigns, which are focused primarily on the upcoming parliamentary election in Moldova, but their long-terms targets like Ukraine, Germany and France are also not forgotten.

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gnida project @gnidaproject.bsky.social · 13d

A joint investigation by the Dossier Center and Süddeutsche Zeitung sheds light into Liane Kilinc's recruitment and work for FSB.

Liane Kilinc's FSB handler Sergey Kolesnikov

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