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FILE - People use their smartphones near the Olympic rings that are displayed on
the Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 7, 2024 in Paris. Cybersecurity experts and
French officials say Russian disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing
in on legislative elections and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end
of the month. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
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FILE - Voters wait at a polling station to vote in the first round of the French
parliamentary election, in Lyon, central France, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Voters
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parliamentary election. Cybersecurity experts and French officials say Russian
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and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of the month. (AP
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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with French
far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, in the Kremlin in Moscow,
Russia, Friday, March 24, 2017. On June 9, the French far-right National Rally
trounced Macron’s party in elections for the European Parliament. The party has
historically been close to Russia: one of its leading figures, Marine Le Pen,
cultivated ties to Putin for many years and supported Russia’s illegal
annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin
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FILE - Far-right National Rally party president Jordan Bardella delivers his
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FILE - A man walks by Stars of David tagged on a wall in Paris, on Oct. 31,
2023. France says it has been the target of a Russian online destabilization
campaign that used bots to whip up controversy and confusion about spray-painted
Stars of David that appeared on Paris streets. French government officials
accused Russia of operating a long-running online manipulation campaign against
Ukraine’s Western backers. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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FILE - The website of the Telegram messaging app is seen on a computer’s screen
in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 13, 2018. Cybersecurity experts and French
officials say Russian disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing in on
legislative elections and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of
the month. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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Olympics and elections
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FILE - People use their smartphones near the Olympic rings that are displayed on
the Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 7, 2024 in Paris. Cybersecurity experts and
French officials say Russian disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing
in on legislative elections and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end
of the month. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
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FILE - People use their smartphones near the Olympic rings that are displayed on
the Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 7, 2024 in Paris. Cybersecurity experts and
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in on legislative elections and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end
of the month. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
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FILE - Voters wait at a polling station to vote in the first round of the French
parliamentary election, in Lyon, central France, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Voters
across mainland France are casting ballots in the first round of an exceptional
parliamentary election. Cybersecurity experts and French officials say Russian
disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing in on legislative elections
and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of the month. (AP
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FILE - Voters wait at a polling station to vote in the first round of the French
parliamentary election, in Lyon, central France, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Voters
across mainland France are casting ballots in the first round of an exceptional
parliamentary election. Cybersecurity experts and French officials say Russian
disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing in on legislative elections
and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of the month. (AP
Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)
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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with French
far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, in the Kremlin in Moscow,
Russia, Friday, March 24, 2017. On June 9, the French far-right National Rally
trounced Macron’s party in elections for the European Parliament. The party has
historically been close to Russia: one of its leading figures, Marine Le Pen,
cultivated ties to Putin for many years and supported Russia’s illegal
annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin
Pool Photo via AP, File)
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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, shakes hands with French
far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, in the Kremlin in Moscow,
Russia, Friday, March 24, 2017. On June 9, the French far-right National Rally
trounced Macron’s party in elections for the European Parliament. The party has
historically been close to Russia: one of its leading figures, Marine Le Pen,
cultivated ties to Putin for many years and supported Russia’s illegal
annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin
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June 30, 2024. Bardella has said he opposes sending long-range weapons to Kyiv.
(AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
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FILE - Far-right National Rally party president Jordan Bardella delivers his
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Stars of David that appeared on Paris streets. French government officials
accused Russia of operating a long-running online manipulation campaign against
Ukraine’s Western backers. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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FILE - A man walks by Stars of David tagged on a wall in Paris, on Oct. 31,
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campaign that used bots to whip up controversy and confusion about spray-painted
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Ukraine’s Western backers. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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FILE - The website of the Telegram messaging app is seen on a computer’s screen
in Moscow, Russia, Friday, April 13, 2018. Cybersecurity experts and French
officials say Russian disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing in on
legislative elections and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of
the month. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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FILE - The website of the Telegram messaging app is seen on a computer’s screen
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the month. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)
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Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Updated
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PARIS (AP) — Photos of blood-red hands on a Holocaust memorial. Caskets at the
Eiffel Tower. A fake French military recruitment drive calling for soldiers in
Ukraine, and major French news sites improbably registered in an obscure Pacific
territory, population 15,000.
All are part of disinformation campaigns orchestrated out of Russia and
targeting France, according to French officials and cybersecurity experts in
Europe and the United States. France’s legislative elections and the Paris
Olympics sent them into overdrive.
More than a dozen reports issued in the past year point to an intensifying
effort from Russia to undermine France, particularly the upcoming Games, and
President Emmanuel Macron, who is one of Ukraine’s most vocal supporters in
Europe.
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FILE - A man walks by Stars of David tagged on a wall in Paris, on Oct. 31,
2023. France says it has been the target of a Russian online destabilization
campaign that used bots to whip up controversy and confusion about spray-painted
Stars of David that appeared on Paris streets. French government officials
accused Russia of operating a long-running online manipulation campaign against
Ukraine’s Western backers. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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This story, supported by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, is part of an
Associated Press series covering threats to democracy in Europe.
___
The Russian campaigns sowing anti-French disinformation began online in early
summer 2023, but first became tangible in October, when more than 1,000 bots
linked to Russia relayed photos of graffitied Stars of David in Paris and its
suburbs.
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A French intelligence report said the Russian intelligence agency FSB ordered
the tagging, as well as subsequent vandalism of a memorial to those who helped
rescue Jews from the Holocaust.
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Photos from each event were amplified on social media by fake accounts linked to
the Russian disinformation site RRN, according to cybersecurity experts. Russia
denies any such campaigns. The French intelligence report says RRN is part of a
larger operation orchestrated by Sergei Kiriyenko, a ranking Kremlin official.
“You have to see this as an ecosystem,” said a French military official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal information about the Russian effort.
“It’s a hybrid strategy.”
The tags and the vandalism had no direct link to Russia’s war in Ukraine, but
they provoked a strong reaction from the French political class, with
denunciations in the legislature and public debate. Antisemitic attacks are on
the rise in France, and the war in Gaza has proven divisive.
The Stars of David could be interpreted either as support for Israel or as
opposition. The effect was to sow division and unease. French Jews in particular
have found themselves unwittingly thrust into the political fray despite, at
just 500,000 people, making up a small proportion of the French population.
In March, just after Macron discussed the possibility of mobilizing the French
military in Ukraine, a fake recruitment drive went up for the French army in
Ukraine, spawning a series of posts in Russian- and French-language Telegram
channels that got picked up in Russian and Belarusian media, according to a
separate French government report seen by The Associated Press. On June 1,
caskets appeared outside the Eiffel Tower, bearing the inscription “French
soldiers in Ukraine.”
FILE - Voters wait at a polling station to vote in the first round of the French
parliamentary election, in Lyon, central France, Sunday, June 30, 2024. Voters
across mainland France are casting ballots in the first round of an exceptional
parliamentary election. Cybersecurity experts and French officials say Russian
disinformation campaigns against France are zeroing in on legislative elections
and the Olympic Games which open in Paris at the end of the month. (AP
Photo/Laurent Cipriani, File)
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The larger disinformation efforts show little traction in France, but the
Russian audience may have been the real target, officials said, by showing that
Russia’s war in Ukraine is, as Putin has said, really a war with the West.
Among the broader goals, the French military official said, was a long-term and
steady effort to sow social discord, erode faith in the media and democratic
governments, undermine NATO, and sap Western support for Ukraine. Denigrating
the Olympics, from which most Russian athletes are banned, is a bonus, according
to French officials monitoring the increasingly strident posts warning of
imminent unrest ahead of the Games.
On June 9, the French far-right National Rally trounced Macron’s party in
elections for the European Parliament. The party has historically been close to
Russia: One of its leading figures, Marine Le Pen, cultivated ties to Putin for
many years and supported Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in
2014. And its leading contender for prime minister, Jordan Bardella, has said he
opposes sending long-range weapons to Kyiv.
In more than 4,400 posts gathered since mid-November by antibot4navalny, a
collective that analyzes Russian bot behavior, those targeting audiences in
France and Germany predominated. The number of weekly posts ranged from 100 to
200 except for the week of May 5, when it dropped near zero, the data showed.
That week, as it happens, was a holiday in Russia.
Many of the posts redirect either to RRN or to sites that appear identical to
major French media, but with the domain — and content — changed. At least two of
the more recent mirrored sites are registered in Wallis and Futuna, a French
Pacific territory 10 time zones from Paris. A click on the top of the fake page
redirects back to the real news sites themselves to give the impression of
authenticity. Other posts redirect to original sites controlled by the the
campaign itself, dubbed Doppelganger.
FILE - Far-right National Rally party president Jordan Bardella delivers his
speech after the first round vote of the legislative election in Paris, Sunday,
June 30, 2024. Bardella has said he opposes sending long-range weapons to Kyiv.
(AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
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The redirects shifted focus for the European elections and continued after
Macron called the surprise legislative elections with just three weeks to spare.
Three-quarters of posts from the week ahead of the June 30 first-round
legislative vote that were directed toward a French audience focused on either
criticizing Macron or boosting the National Rally, antibot4navalny found in data
shared with The Associated Press.
One post on a fake site purported to be from Le Point, a current affairs
magazine, and the French news agency AFP, criticizing Macron.
“Our leaders have no idea how ordinary French people live but are ready to
destroy France in the name of aid for Ukraine,” read the headline on June 25.
Another site falsely claimed to be from Macron’s party, offering to pay 100
euros for a vote for him — and linking back to the party’s true website. And
still another inadvertently left a generative artificial intelligence prompt
calling for the re-write of an article “taking a conservative stance against the
liberal policies of the Macron administration,” according to findings last week
from Insikt Group, the threat research division of the cybersecurity consultancy
Recorded Future.
“They’re scraping automatically, sending the text to the AI and asking the AI to
introduce bias or slants into the article and rewrite it,” said Clément Briens,
an analyst for Recorded Future.
Briens said metrics tools embedded within the site are likely intended to prove
that the campaigns were money well-spent for “whoever is doing the payouts for
these operations.”
The French government cybersecurity watchdog, Viginum, has published multiple
reports since June 2023 singling out Russian efforts to sow divisions in France
and elsewhere. That was around the time that pro-Kremlin Telegram feeds started
promoting “Olympics has Fallen” — a full-length fake Netflix film featuring an
AI-generated voice resembling Tom Cruise that criticized the International
Olympic Committee, according to the Microsoft Threat Analysis Center.
Microsoft said this campaign, which it dubbed Storm-1679, is fanning fears of
violence at the Games and last fall disseminated digitally generated photos
referring, among other things, to the attacks on Israeli athletes at the 1972
Olympics.
The latest effort, which started just after the first round of the elections on
June 30, merges fears of violence related to both the Olympics and the risk of
protests after the decisive second round, antibot4navalny found. Viginum
released a new report Tuesday detailing the risks ahead for the Games — not for
violence but for disinformation.
“Digital information manipulation campaigns have become a veritable instrument
of destabilization of democracies,” Viginum said. “This global event will give
untold informational exposure to malevolant foreign actors.” The word Russia
appears nowhere.
Baptiste Robert, a French cybersecurity expert who ran unsuccessfully as an
unaffiliated centrist in the legislative elections, called on his government —
and especially lawmakers — to prepare for the digital threats to come.
“This is a global policy of Russia: They really want to push people into the
extremes,” he said before the first-round vote. “It’s working perfectly right
now.”
LORI HINNANT
Hinnant covers the intersection of human rights and international security for
The Associated Press. She’s reported throughout North Africa, Europe and the
Middle East. Based in Paris, she shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
for her reporting in Ukraine.
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