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Russia is flooding Europe with disinformation.
The U.S. elections are next.

"Doppelganger," a Moscow-run effort, cloned websites of legitimate newspapers, magazines and news services, posted replicas under similar domain names and filled them with Kremlin propaganda.


At least two years after they were detected, Doppelganger’s phony sites continue popping up around the internet like mushrooms after a cloudburst, despite ongoing efforts to close them down.

The sites’ persistence reflects the flood of Russian interference
— and the near-impossibility of monitoring it, let alone stopping it
— ahead of elections next month for the European Parliament.

They’re also a foretaste of what Americans can expect in the fall’s presidential contest, in which Moscow will try to amplify the venomous clamor of U.S. politics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/27/russia-disinformation-propaganda-eu-elections/