Doppelganger Revamped: Network of Verified Accounts Spreads Multilingual Propaganda on X
Research note documenting about 250 inauthentic X accounts, nearly half of them verified, activated in coordinated clusters from June 2024 to spread Kremlin-aligned content in five languages and hijack trending hashtags such as Euro 2024, raising monetisation and verification concerns.
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This original report draws on network analysis and longitudinal analysis.
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- Original report · 10 pages
- Research approach
- network analysis and longitudinal analysis
- Reported study scale
- five languages
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This Reset Tech research note documented a fresh wave of the Doppelganger operation on X, in which about 250 inauthentic accounts, nearly half carrying paid verification, were activated in coordinated clusters from 3 June 2024.
The accounts pushed Kremlin-aligned content in German, French, English, Turkish and Russian and deliberately latched onto high-traffic trending hashtags, such as those around Euro 2024, to widen their reach. The prominence of verified accounts again tied the operation to X's paid-verification model.
Reset Tech flags the episode as continued evidence that X's design and monetisation choices amplify coordinated foreign influence, a systemic risk under the DSA.
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