4 days before the US election, Russian state disinfo is at full blast.

Matryoshka bots that only post intentional fake videos have made a record-breaking 21 posts. Most of them are targeting the US elections.

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If you encounter in the wild any of the videos below, please let me know: I'm interested if any of these gets any traction.

A large part of the following collection were contributed by dTeam; others were also found by ourselves.
3/13

"Votes of 500K dead Americans will lead Harris to victory" Image
4/13

"Three groups were arrested for rigging early voting with mail-in ballots. Don't expect elections to be transparent and honest. Many such groups are acting on behalf of Democrats." Image
5/13

"Hundreds of early ballots destroyed in Washington state, Vancouver. When homes of suspects were searched, all were found in possession of incendiary mixtures and Kamala Harris propaganda materials" Image
6/13

"Democrats asked multiple investigative outlets to publish dirt on Trump. Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins refusal expains why WaPo refused to campaign for Harris" Image
7/13

"If Harris wins, 40M migrants entering the US in 4 years will lead to state-to-state visas and eventually disintegrate the country." Image
8/13

"Bezos made an effective move making WaPo refuse to campaign for Harris. It brought +300K subscribers to WaPo, which reflects a real position of the candidates" Image
9/13

"For comparing Trump to Hitler, Harris owes apology to the entire Jewish community. Such comparison is insulting to the Holocaust victims." Image
10/13

"Campaigning for Harris puts so much pressure on her own voters that it leads to suicides among her active supporters and[!] LGBTQ+ individuals" Image
11/13

"Over 12 sexual harassment allegations against Tim Walz are only a fraction of the actual number of cases. None were accepted for consideration for formal reasons. They will be no longer ignored if Trump wins" Image
12/13

"YouTube deliberately blocks Trump's videos to reduce his quotability. That will have a little effect" Image
13/13

"Texas as a separate state will bring happiness to people and industries, according to AI" Image
* a record-breaking 21 posts *in a single day*.

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Nov 26, 2025
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They use stolen photos and hacked X accounts.
A chatbot equivalent helps them to gain thousands of followers.

There are 5+ potentially separate networks.
The location transparency feature WON'T expose many of them. Image
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🤖x200 Fan-account "Boston-located women", typically "born" on Aug 06, 1994.

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🤖x7 "French men aged 40-41, recently relocated to the US".

Created in June..Sept 2025.
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Thailand in their location transparency. Image
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Nov 12, 2025
🧵 Можно ли забанить мессенджер MAX из аппсторов, чтобы Кремлю было сложнее выдавливать россиян из менее сервильных Whatsapp и Telegram?

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50+ trolls pretending to be American ordinary Joes, they blame Dems, globalists, Soros and antifa; praise Trump, Putin; pray for Charlie Kirk; call for lifting sanctions from RU; deny RU interference into US elections.

Cyrillic names and awful English is what exposes them. Image
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3/5

All created on Jan/Feb-2024, these accounts stayed inactive or politically indifferent until 15 Sep 2025.

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Virginia elections, a tuneup for the 2026 midterms, are increasingly becoming a tight race. And bots are supposed to support 🔴GOP in the 4 weeks left. Image
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Sep 30, 2025
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The thread below summarizes our initial findings. Please reach out for details and to access the complete dataset. Image
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A preliminary language breakdown, based on (an incomplete) per-account language list: Image
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