The Doppelganger case - Assessment of Platform Regulation on the EU Disinformation Environment
The Doppelganger case - Assessment of Platform Regulation on the EU Disinformation Environment

Author(s): Maria Giovanna Sessa, Miguel Raquel
Subject(s): Media studies, Communication studies, Security and defense, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Keywords: EU DisinfoLab; EU; Russia; information; communication; security;
Summary/Abstract: In September 2022, EU DisinfoLab, with the support of Qurium, exposed a Russia-based influence operation network operating in Europe since at least May 2022. The campaign, dubbed “Doppelganger”, replicated and impersonated authentic media by spoofing domain names and creating content falsely attributed to reputable news websites. Despite Meta’s acknowledgement of the operation and legal prosecutions by affected media in France and Germany, recent findings from June 2023 confirm that the campaign is ongoing on multiple platforms, and even expanding. Public institutions such as ministries in France and Germany were recently impacted. In August 2023, Graphika’s latest investigation on the campaign and Meta’s Adversarial Threat Report Q2 2023 confirm that NATO has been a direct target of Doppelganger, in the context of last July’s Vilnius summit.

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