"War in Ukraine will end in 3 months": Berbbok exposed Russian IPSO

As an example, the newspaper is published in September on the alleged page of German Minister of Foreign Affairs Annalena Berbb. "The war in Ukraine will end in 3 months," the publication reads. According to the journalists, the account was fake, but the mentioned post appealed 389 users, and 45 other people shared it on social networks. Retvita was spotted with hashtags that had no connection with politics, but were popular during that period.

The German Foreign Ministry found out that fake tweet is part of a Russian misinformation campaign. In addition, in four months, the ministry experts have found more than 50,000 fake users who coordinated propaganda in German and more than a million tweets. According to the publication, tweets of such users often contained charges against the Federal Government of Germany. One of the main topics of such information attacks is to help Ukraine.

The authors of the publications have often accused German politicians of allegedly neglecting their own citizens. "I am disappointed by the fact that the government is doing more for other countries than for its citizens," one of these messages reads. According to journalists, topics that violate counterfeit pages, they push for the conclusion that Russia is behind. This hypothesis was confirmed by forensic tests.

Experts from the German Foreign Ministry believe that the last wave of fake messages in German is part of a broader Russian information campaign, which was discovered in 2022, called "double". The attackers create fake pages not only of famous personalities but also popular media, including Spiegel, Welt and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Yes, on January 19, Spiegel was a fake article on January 19, more than 3,700 times in just a few hours.

According to the publication, the ministry is concerned that most of the Russian campaign is probably now automated. Experts noted that 4000 identified users' accounts, which were probably controlled by the Russian Federation, published content in German at the same time and at the same speed, apparently, controlled by algorithms. We will remind, on January 23 in. at.