Lega Artis’ Rise to Prominence: Inadequate Mechanisms for Curbing Kremlin Propaganda in the Polish Infosphere
By Kamila Koronska, Peter Benzoni, Shiva Shah and Zachary Horsington
Traced how Lega Artis, a 2018 legal blog, became an information-laundering vehicle republishing EU-sanctioned Russian media in Polish, expanding its social reach while circumventing DSA obligations and apparently using AI automation to distribute anti-EU disinformation at implausible volumes.
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This investigation documents how Lega Artis operates as an information-laundering mechanism for Russian state propaganda in Poland and the wider EU, exploiting legal and regulatory gaps to republish sanctioned Russian content while maintaining a veneer of legitimacy. Researchers found evidence that Lega Artis uses automation and AI to generate and distribute disinformation at volumes implausible for manual operation, effectively flooding the European information space with anti-EU narratives while evading the platform enforcement mechanisms the DSA is meant to mandate.
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