Russia’s unprecedented offensive against democracies

Russia’s unprecedented offensive against democracies
Russia’s unprecedented offensive against democracies
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Investigation It is a ruthless, multifaceted offensive without any code of conduct that Russian intelligence has launched against France and Western democracies.

The French vote is an act of revenge against Macron. » On the evening of the European elections which put Marine Le Pen’s party in the lead in France, a virtual tsunami of messages hostile to the French president swept through X (formerly Twitter). Real reflection of public opinion? Not exactly. Behind a large number of these tweets are “bots”, fake accounts intended to influence political debates. In just a few hours, they flood the networks and create a cognitive bubble, a little background music playing in the ear of public opinion.

In the immense informational playground of the Internet, Russia is waging a merciless war which, if it manipulates modern tools of artificial intelligence (AI), obeys an ancestral strategy. From the VIe century, the Chinese Sun Tzu stated in the oldest known treatise on strategy: “the art of war is to subdue the enemy without combat”. But if the Western camp has chosen to defend its values ​​by respecting a certain…

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