The network includes accounts impersonating reputable news outlets such as BBC News, Euronews, and Meduza, designed to give credibility to Telegram propaganda links. We believe it may be connected to the “Pravda/Portal Kombat” pro-Russia propaganda network.

Accounts are hosted across numerous Mastodon instances and bridged into Bluesky, creating the appearance of independent sources. Activity on Bluesky helped reveal aggregate patterns, identical usernames, posting schedules, and content themes more clearly than across decentralised Mastodon services.

If your first reaction was to post “posts I dislike are Russian bots”, then you haven’t actually grasped the argument. It has nothing to do with anyone disagreeing with specific posts.

It’s also very telling that you’re reflexively posting that when it says nothing about the data being presented.