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Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections


Researcher uncovers vast Facebook campaign and accuses Meta of ‘lack of willingness’ to counter it

“This is a highly adversarial space with malicious groups constantly evolving their tactics to evade detection by companies across the internet, which is why we invest heavily in regularly sharing our threat research publicly,” Meta said. “It is not science fiction, it is already here,” Loiseau said, citing the 2023 Slovak elections, where a pro-European, pro-Nato candidate, Michal Šimečka of Progressive Slovakia, lost a tight race to Robert Fico, the populist leader who was the victim of an assassination attempt this week that shocked Europe. In an interview before von der Leyen’s pledge was announced, Loiseau said that the EU’s response was inadequate to the scale of the threat: “There is a kind of indolence or complacency that allows Russia to keep on working”.

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