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Yep. This was the train of discovery:

May 6, 2019, Facebook announces takedown of operations originating in Russia, including this one.

about.fb.com/news/2019/05/m…
June 22, 2019: @DFRLab analyses the scope of the operation beyond Facebook.

We call it "Secondary Infektion" for its resemblance to the Soviet AIDS libel, dubbed "Operation Infektion".

medium.com/dfrlab/top-tak…
October 21, 2019: the trade leaks drop on Reddit.

December 2, 2019: @Graphika_NYC analyses the resemblance of the amplification of the trade leaks to Secondary Infektion.

graphika.com/reports/UK-tra…
December 6, 2019: @reddit says that, based on the investigation on its platform, the trade leaks look like part of the same operation.

reddit.com/r/redditsecuri…
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Well, this is pretty big.

@reddit confirms that the dissemination of the UK/US trade leaks was "tied to" the earlier Russian operation "Secondary Infektion":

reddit.com/r/redditsecuri…
The @Graphika_NYC report is here, pointing out how the initial dissemination of the leaks resembled the earlier operation.

(Note that there's no suggestion the UK leaks were faked, whereas the earlier operation used fakes all the time.)

graphika.com/reports/UK-tra…
And here's the reporting the @DFRLab team, including myself, did back in June, after @Facebook exposed this operation and confirmed it originated from Russia.
medium.com/dfrlab/top-tak…
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THREAD: Here's the report from @Graphika_NYC on how last week's trade leaks resembled Russian info op "Secondary Infektion".

It's either the same operation back, or someone trying to mimic it.

graphika.com/tradeleaks
The initial sequence of events online was:

21 October: Reddit in English

23 October: Reddit in German
meinbezirk.at in German
homment.com in German
BeforeIt'sNews in English

23 October - 6 November: tweets to politicians and media
The first Reddit account, u/gregoratior, is a curious specimen. Created in 2017, but its first known post was September 2019.

Its use of English was odd. "Standing on her knees"?
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THREAD: the White Helmets were subjected to the most sustained state-backed smear campaign I’ve ever seen. By all appearances, it’s because they were witnesses to probable war crimes.

independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

H/t @Independent
The White Helmets were set up to rescue people in conflict zones. That’s what they did for years. As such, they became witnesses to atrocities, like the Khan Sheikhoun sarin attack in April 2017.

opcw.org/sites/default/…
They were accused of being “propaganda”, of working for al-Qaida, the CIA and NATO. The @Graphika_NYC archive of attributed info operations, io-archive.org, shows the spike in attacks on them in April 2017.
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