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𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 🇦🇲 In the month ahead of #Armenia's June 7 parliamentary #elections, we monitored how Russian information manipulation sets were targeting the vote, and what #TikTok and #YouTube’s algorithms were actually serving to French users searching for content about it.

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Russia deployed a network of 72 fake news sites linked to #Storm1516, 56 of those domains pushed narratives targeting PM Pashinyan. 17 had also previously targeted France's municipal elections.

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On TikTok, French users searching "Pashinyan" were served hostile content, notably AI-generated videos, sometimes from accounts linked to the Kremlin, Azerbaijan, and the Armenian diaspora.

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Pashinyan won. The operations fired blanks at the ballot box. Our report 🔗 checkfirst.network/noise-witho...

checkfirst.networkNoise without effect: anti-Pashinyan disinformation on the rise ahead of Armenian parliamentary elections - CheckFirstWe spent one month ahead of Armenian parliamentary elections monitoring disinformation spread by foreign Information Manipulation Sets and tracking what recommendation algorithms were pushing to diaspora users searching for content about the vote.