France Exposes Major Russian Disinformation Campaign Targeting Israel and Foreign Ministry Website

France has uncovered a major Russian disinformation campaign that created false news items hostile to Ukraine, made to look like they were published by prominent French news media. The campaign also appears to have targeted Israeli and Jewish media. The operation involved producing fake articles on a page identical in all respects to those of the legitimate sites of media organizations, but with different domain names. The French foreign ministry itself foiled an attempt to create a fake reproduction of its own website. The campaign is a new illustration of the hybrid strategy that Russia is implementing to undermine the conditions for peaceful democratic debate and therefore undermine democratic institutions.