A Russian pro -Russian adverse information According to new research released last week, the campaign is increasing consumer artificial intelligence tools to burn “content explosion” with the focus on intensifying tensions on the world elections, Ukraine and immigration.
The campaign, known for many names, including Operation Overload and Matryoshka (other researchers tied it to Storm-1679) has been operating since 2023 and has been coordinated by several groups, including Microsoft and the Strategic Dialogue Institute. The campaign publishes false narratives with the identity of the media for the purpose of planting a division in democratic countries. While the campaign targets audiences around the world, including in the United States, its main purpose was Ukraine. Hundreds of AI films from this campaign are trying to create pro -Russian narratives.
The report says how, between September 2024 and May 2025, the amount of content produced by those who execute the campaign has increased dramatically and receives millions of views around the world.
In its report, researchers identified 230 unique pieces of the content promoted by the campaign between July 2023 and June 2024, including images, videos, QR codes and fake websites. Researchers said over the past eight months, overload operations destroyed a total of 587 unique content, and most of them were created with the help of AI tools.
Researchers said the content spike is directed by Consumer AI tools available online. This easy access helps the tactics of the “content integration” campaign, where those who performed the operation were able to produce several pieces of content thanks to artificial intelligence tools that pressured the same story.
Resear Reset Tech researchers, a London -based non -profit that tracks anti -information campaigns and initially reviews a Finnish software company, wrote in the report: “The campaign has significantly reinforced the production of new content over the past eight months, indicating that it is changing faster and scaling content.”
The researchers also amazed at the variety of the tools and the types of content followed by the campaign. “What was surprising to me, the variety of content, the various types of content they started using them,” says Alexandra Atotanova, an open source information researcher in resetting technology. “It is as if they have diversified their pallets to get many stories like different angles. They lay out different types of content one after another.”
Atanasova added: “The campaign does not appear to use any custom AI tools to achieve its goals, but used the voice generator and image with power that are available to everyone.”
While it was difficult to identify all the tools used by the campaign campaign, the researchers were able to become a narrow tool, especially: Flux AI.
Flux AI is a text -based text generator built by Black Forest Labs, a German -based company founded by former AI stability employees. Researchers, using SighTengine’s image analysis tool, found 99 % of the possibility that some of the fake images shared by the overload campaign – some claim to be Muslim immigrants and set fire to Berlin and Paris – were created using Flux AI image production.
