- 🔴 NEW REPORT Alongside @reset.tech, we publish our third investigation into Operation Overload. ⤵️Jun 26, 2025 07:57
- This Russian propaganda campaign, which targets fact-checkers, is now leveraging AI generated content and impersonation techniques, and is expanding to more platforms such as TikTok and BlueSky.
- Since September 2024, we have recorded over 700 targeted emails and nearly 600 unique pieces of falsified content disseminated across platforms including Telegram, X, BlueSky, and most recently TikTok.
- Over 180 individuals and organisations have been impersonated using AI-generated content in an attempt to cause confusion, manipulate debate, and overload fact-checkers. Despite that, platforms’ responses remain worryingly uneven.
- Read the full report and our recommendations here: checkfirst.network/operation-o...