
From: UNITED24 — The Moscow-based disinformation hub known as the Social Design Agency has been exposed. Leaked records from the Russian disinformation campaign, including the agency’s presentation video, reveal how Moscow saw to discredit Ukraine and the Western governments supporting it. Another goal was to bolster far right political parties in the European Union, particularly the electoral prospects of Germany’s Alternative for Germany party and France’s National Rally.
Documents obtained by a consortium of European media outlets show the campaign also aimed to discredit Ukrainian refugees by creating fake videos and disseminating them on social media. According to one internal document, the Social Design Agency also launched a bot network that generated nearly 34 million comments from January to April, targeting Ukrainian state institutions and media with a flood of misleading content.