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McKenzie Sadeghi
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Editor, AI and Foreign Influence, NewsGuard
New York, Washington
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misinformation
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Russian Propaganda Campaign Targets France with AI-Fabricated Scandals, Drawing 55 Million Views on Social Media
By Natalie Huet, McKenzie Sadeghi, Chine Labbé| NewsGuard's Reality Check@ By Natalie Huet, McKenzie Sadeghi, and Chine LabbeA Russian propaganda operation that previously took aim at elections in the U.S. and Germany has a new target: France. NewsGuard found that Storm-1516 — a Russian influence operation that includes the efforts of John Mark Dougan, a former Florida deputy sheriff granted asylum in Moscow turned Kremlin propagandist that uses AI to create and spread false claims — targeted France with five false narratives from December 2024 to March 2025.
By McKenzie Sadeghi| Conspiracy Watch@ Russia’s initiative is not fact-checking, writes NewsGuard AI and Foreign Influence Editor McKenzie Sadeghi. It’s an effort to defend Russian disinformation. Russia’s long-term objective in the global information war has never been to convince the world of its version of events. Instead, it seeks to erode the very idea that objective truth exists.
Russian Propaganda Campaign Targets France with AI-Fabricated Scandals, Drawing 55 Million Views on Social Media
By Natalie Huet, McKenzie Sadeghi, Chine Labbé| NewsGuard's Reality Check@ By Natalie Huet, McKenzie Sadeghi, and Chine LabbeA Russian propaganda operation that previously took aim at elections in the U.S. and Germany has a new target: France. NewsGuard found that Storm-1516 — a Russian influence operation that includes the efforts of John Mark Dougan, a former Florida deputy sheriff granted asylum in Moscow turned Kremlin propagandist that uses AI to create and spread false claims — targeted France with five false narratives from December 2024 to March 2025.
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