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EU elections a 'prime target' for disinformation
Top EU diplomat Josep Borrell issued a stark warning about misleading information spread from abroad. But much disinformation — be it on Ukraine, the climate or migrants — comes from EU politicians themselves.
A blue Star of David spray-painted on to the side of a building in ParisImage: Poitout Florian/ABACA/picture alliance "This reminds us of the worst days of the Holocaust," Borrell said, with images spreading quickly on social media. In November, the French Foreign Ministry condemned the Russian network Recent Reliable News (RRN) or Doppelgänger for "the artificial spreading and initial distribution on social media of photos" of the incident. Monitors from EUvsDisinfo, a project EEAS set up in 2015, have identified Doppelgänger as "a multi-faceted online information operation originating from Russia [that] has targeted multiple countries worldwide," often by impersonating western authorities like the French Foreign Ministry or media outlets.
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