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Incidents implicated systems

Incident 92916 Report
Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

2024-12-06

Leading up to Germany’s February 23, 2025, federal election, the alleged Russian Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka (Operation Overload) disinformation campaigns have reportedly been deploying AI-generated deepfake videos and fake news sites to spread false claims about German politicians and public figures. AI-powered bots have allegedly been amplifying the content across social media. Researchers suggest the campaign sought to erode trust in Germany’s democratic process. Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) described the scale as unprecedented.

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Incident 9093 Report
Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

2024-12-13

The Matryoshka disinformation campaign allegedly used AI to impersonate academics, reportedly spreading claims supporting Russia and urging Ukraine's surrender. These videos are said to have misrepresented scholars’ views in order to amplify pro-Russian propaganda. The campaign reportedly exploited global social media platforms to allegedly mislead viewers and undermine trust in credible academic voices while fueling misinformation about the Ukraine conflict.

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Incident 9242 Report
Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

2025-01-30

BBC presenter Naga Munchetty was reportedly targeted in an AI-generated scam using deepfake images and fake news articles to promote a fraudulent investment scheme. Scam ads on social media allegedly featured manipulated images of Munchetty and linked to a fake BBC article directing users to a cyber trading website. The BBC legal team is reported to have taken action to remove the fraudulent site.

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Related Entities
Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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scammers

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 924
    2 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

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Fraudsters

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 924
    2 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

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Scammers impersonating Naga Munchetty

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 924
    2 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

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Unknown deepfake technology developers

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 909
    3 Reports

    Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

  • Incident 924
    2 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

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Naga Munchetty

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 924
    2 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

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BBC

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 924
    2 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

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social media users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 924
    2 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

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Fans of Naga Munchetty

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 924
    2 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

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Unknown deepfake apps

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

  • Incident 909
    3 Reports

    Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

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X (Twitter)

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

  • Incident 909
    3 Reports

    Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

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Facebook

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

  • Incident 924
    2 Reports

    Alleged Deepfake Scam Uses BBC Presenter Naga Munchetty’s Image to Promote Fraudulent Investment Scheme

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Storm-1516

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Russian government

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Operation Overload

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Matryoshka

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

  • Incident 909
    3 Reports

    Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

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Entity

John Mark Dougan

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Doppelganger

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Unknown entities related to Doppelgänger

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Unknown deepfake technology developer

Incidents involved as Developer
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Unnamed British police officer

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Unnamed American university presidents

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Robert Habeck

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Olaf Scholz

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Natalie Finch

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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German voters

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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German politicians

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Entity

German federal election integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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General public of Germany

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Friedrich Merz

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Electoral integrity

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Democracy

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Academics targeted by Matryoshka

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

  • Incident 909
    3 Reports

    Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

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Unknown voice cloning technology

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Telegram

Incidents implicated systems
  • Incident 929
    16 Reports

    Sustained AI-Driven Russian Disinformation Campaigns Doppelgänger, Storm-1516, and Matryoshka Reportedly Disrupting German Federal Elections

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Russian entities linked to GRU

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 909
    3 Reports

    Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

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Reliable Russian News

Incidents involved as Deployer
  • Incident 909
    3 Reports

    Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

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Ronald Hutton

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 909
    3 Reports

    Matryoshka Campaign Allegedly Uses Deepfakes to Impersonate Academics for Pro-Russian Propaganda

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