Russia and far-right groups are spreading disinformation online less than two weeks before elections for the European Parliament, the New York Times reports.
How: The new efforts share many of the same digital fingerprints or tactics used in Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential campaign, according to European Union investigators. For example, two supposedly German political groups share servers used by the Russian hackers who attacked the Democratic National Committee. The situation is further complicated by far-right copycat groups who echo Kremlin lines, making it hard to distinguish between disinformation and fair debate.
Conspiracy theories: It’s a familiar playbook, with Kremlin-linked groups sowing discord and planting false information—for example, that the Notre-Dame fire was caused by Islamic terrorists.
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