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'Operation Matryochka': Russian propaganda machine exploits Paris attacks

• Nov 19, 2025, 8:54 PM
1 min de lecture
A series of French media houses - including France 24 - have been targeted and impersonated by a Russian disinformation campaign. The operation capitalised on the recent 10th anniversary of the 2015 Paris attacks, to sow division and discredit President Emmanuel Macron. The propaganda machine - named Operation Matryochka - is one we have seen and been targeted by before, as Vedika Bahl explains in Truth or Fake.