A crop of online outlets which look just like French local media outlets are fooling internet users by sharing articles with alarming headlines, spinning genuine news reports with the help of AI, as part of a pro-Russian campaign peddling anti-Western narratives.
Researchers from Recorded Future identified at least 200 new fictional media websites registered online between January and September — flagging 141 outlets which present themselves as French outlets — which they attribute to Russia's Storm-1516 network.
