--- title: Propaganda in motion url: https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/ description: Dated, sourced reads of current influence operations from every side, each scored on method rather than on who is speaking. section: Watch briefs --- ![Illustration: a dossier collage of a vintage television wall broadcasting archival news footage, surrounded by press clippings and film reels.](https://propagandaarchive.org/static/generated/hero-watch-briefs.jpg) Watch briefs # Propaganda in motion This is a live, hourly watch running since September 8, 2026, concentrated on the current influence-operations beat. It is not the archive. Of the 180 active briefs, the largest shares are Russia 34 (18.9%), China 32 (17.8%), Israel 22 (12.2%), other states 21 (11.7%), Iran 16 (8.9%). Quiet cycles: 1 of 181 (0.6%). The historical vault is the [case studies](https://propagandaarchive.org/case-studies/). Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure Impersonated Source falsified: fake personas, outlets or documents ## September 29, 2026 - Impersonated — [ANO Dialog, as named in Meta's H2 2026 CIB report, rented local media brands and AI talking-heads to boost Strong Armenia while a 28 September NGO file restated the wider Russian stack.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-1142Z-ano-dialog-armenia-elections/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Identified — [China's Foreign Ministry used a one-sided White House readout to treat opposing Taiwan independence as the correct U.S. position after talks Trump's fact sheet did not mention.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0815Z-correction-prc-readout-taiwan-oppose/) — [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) - Identified — [UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham used UNGA catastrophe language to sell a National Centre for Information Defence as the remedy for a poisonous tide.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0810Z-correction-uk-ncid-burnham/) — [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Identified — [Justice Department reminder named public demonstrations among activities a foreign power's agent must register, drawing warnings that protest could be read as unregistered propaganda.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0805Z-correction-doj-fara-demonstrations/) — [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Identified — [Qatar's International Media Office framed Israeli aid-to-Hamas reports as a far-right smear so UN-cleared transfers would read as civilian-only.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0800Z-correction-qatar-imo-scapegoat/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) - Unidentified — [State Department proposed paying Southeast Asian creators to carry U.S. China-counter messaging.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0755Z-correction-state-asean-influencers/) — [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Unidentified — [Ekō billed Meta from the United States for 15 unlabeled AI Brazil-election ads and reported that 13 of the 15 cleared automated review.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0750Z-correction-eko-meta-brazil-ads/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Identified — [Sun Yat-sen University launched Huanyu Zhiying 1.0 so simulated foreign desks and silicon audiences would pre-tune China's crisis copy.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0745Z-correction-huanyu-zhiying/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Identified — [Israel's Diaspora Ministry timed a govextra site and U.S. ad burst so UN Gaza reporting would read as a poison machine ahead of the General Assembly.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0740Z-correction-chikli-un-bias-site/) — [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Identified — [A House subcommittee titled its hearing Trojan Horses, framing China-Iran-Cuba influence as covert access through U.S. nonprofits and streamers.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0735Z-correction-house-trojan-horses/) — [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Identified — [A China-funded Lancang-Mekong forum in Phnom Penh launched Zero Fake News awards so a government anti-misinformation campaign would read as shared regional literacy.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0730Z-correction-lmc-zero-fake-news/) — [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) - Unidentified — [A Bangui radio desk used Claude to write pro-Moscow, anti-France copy for Radio Lengo Songo so an SVR-assessed Politology shop would sound like a local station.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0725Z-correction-gtg04001-lengo-songo/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Tricontinental, funded in part by a Shanghai-based donor, carried Hands Off Asia from an X slogan through a webinar Newsweek places as Beijing-chaired, a Colombo declaration; Newsweek links it to August U.S. anti-base meetings.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0720Z-correction-hands-off-asia-singham/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Meta left an unlabeled deepfake of a Scottish Labour councillor saying refugees are welcome even if they rape, until the Oversight Board ordered it down as hate speech.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0715Z-correction-meta-oversight-deepfake/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Flock Safety partnered with a new D.C. nonprofit that used AI-gated texts to generate Knox County resident emails supporting license-plate readers after commissioners moved to cancel the cameras.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0710Z-correction-flock-neighbors-astroturf/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [Qatar's Washington deputy labeled Section 117 critics a coordinated disinformation cell as ISGAP read Cornell's $1.08 billion Doha medical-school filing as first listing faculty restrictions in 2026 for a 2020 start.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0705Z-correction-qatar-campus-mirror/) — [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) - Unidentified — [A House witness cited OpenAI's Data Center Bandwagon and a 200-account X farm as part of a PRC effort to stall U.S. AI buildout; the cited platform records show low reach.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0700Z-correction-prc-datacenter-bandwagon/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Sleeper effect](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/sleeper-effect/) - Unidentified — [The Pentagon placed conservative influencers in SGE and HQE slots while their X handles still read as independent veterans and data analysts.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0655Z-correction-pentagon-sge-influencers/) — [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) - Unidentified — [Tricontinental and the International Peoples' Assembly moved Hands Off Asia from a March slogan to a July declaration and August U.S. rallies across Asian and U.S. venues.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0650Z-correction-hands-off-asia-singham/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Identified — [Chikli's ministry sold a six-chapter UN-bias site to U.S. journalists as a ministry case that UN famine and genocide language was manufactured.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0645Z-correction-chikli-un-narrative-site/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Identified — [America PAC made daughter-danger ads its midterm turnout issue in four Senate races; Axios notes voters rank the economy first.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0640Z-correction-america-pac-trans-ads/) — [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) - Identified — [DHS Secretary Mullin paired a true China-parts fact with compromise language and grant conditions ahead of the midterms.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0635Z-correction-dhs-china-voting-parts/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) - Identified — [Future of Life Institute held a Washington Pro-Human Assembly and ran an $8 million ad campaign pressing AI-risk regulation.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0630Z-correction-fli-pro-human-assembly/) — [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Unidentified — [An institute funded by a Shanghai-based American donor chaired a Beijing webinar that turned Hands Off Asia into U.S. city protest copy against American bases.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0625Z-correction-hands-off-asia-tricontinental/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) - Identified — [A MAGA influencer registered under FARA to promote an Israeli-founded drone maker as America First for $20,000 a month; the filing did not appear on his convention clip.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0620Z-correction-pearson-xtend-fara/) — [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [A Shanghai-based donor's funding reached U.S. tax-exempt newsrooms and activist hubs as a House panel held a Trojan Horses hearing on the same graph.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0615Z-correction-singham-trojan-horses-hearing/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) - Identified — [MSS minister Chen Yixin used a signed China Cyberspace essay to park deepfakes and intelligent troll armies on unnamed hostile forces and to justify Party control of AI.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0610Z-correction-mss-chen-cognitive-war/) — [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - Identified — [DHS and the White House used unlicensed Transformers and Tetris skins to promote deportation policy, then pulled the items after the brand owners objected.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0605Z-correction-dhs-transformers-arcade/) — [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) - Identified — [Meta opened Community Notes testing in 16 Latin American countries as a planned replacement for third-party fact-checking](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0600Z-correction-meta-community-notes-latam/) — [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Bothsidesism](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bothsidesism/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - Identified — [State Department DRL democracy funds for European civilizational-heritage work drop French applicants after Paris calls the grant foreign interference.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0555Z-correction-state-drl-europe-france/) — [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) - Unidentified — [Soufan Center 9/11 book does not disclose its founder's Qatari academy post or a $500,000 academy fee; it treats Hamas as an Iran proxy and Qatar as a venue.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0550Z-correction-qatar-soufan-qiass/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) - Unidentified — [Russia-aligned Matryoshka network uses fabricated media impersonations, AI voiceovers and selective smears to target German state-election candidates while sparing AfD and BSW](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0545Z-correction-russia-matryoshka-germany-elections/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - Unidentified — [China-linked operators use ChatGPT-generated cartoons and inauthentic X accounts to amplify US opposition to AI data centers](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0540Z-correction-china-data-center-influence/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) - Unidentified — [Pentagon-linked Arabic and Farsi ‘newsrooms’ run gray propaganda via buried About-page disclosure and paid social reach](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0535Z-correction-centcom-gc-network/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - [China’s Clean Internet 2026 campaign punishes unofficial accounts of Tibet-Nepal border flood, enforcing official death-toll narrative while deleting alternative reports](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0530Z-correction-china-clean-internet-tibet-flood/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Limited hangout](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/limited-hangout/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - [Anonymously funded operators deploy AI-generated Local Government Accountability Institute, billed as nonpartisan, to attack Florida county commissioners](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0525Z-correction-us-darkmoney-lgai-sarasota-ai-thinktank/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - [Russian Matryoshka (Operation Overload/Storm-1679) continues flooding German state and municipal elections with fabricated media videos, AI voiceovers and false allegations against CDU, SPD, Greens, FDP and Die Linke candidates while sparing AfD and BSW](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0520Z-correction-russia-matryoshka-germany-elections/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - [Chinese content farms leave AI prompt artifacts revealing Taiwan-targeted narrative production; Meta and researchers document ongoing proxy and generative-AI assisted networks](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0515Z-correction-china-taiwan-ai-content-farm/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [RSF investigation shows major AI chatbots retrieve and redistribute EU-sanctioned Russian state media content on demand](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0510Z-correction-rsf-ai-russian-sanctions/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - [Pentagon gives undisclosed civilian roles to military-veteran influencers who post in support of Defense Secretary Hegseth on X](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260929-0505Z-correction-us-dod-influencers/) — [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## September 28, 2026 - Impersonated — [An Iran-linked Hebrew persona ring, as mapped by Golden Owl and copied by Ynet and The Jerusalem Post, posed as Israeli voters to move fraud, draft, and emigration fights before the 27 October election.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260928-1600Z-iran-hebrew-election-personas/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## September 27, 2026 - Impersonated — [A Russia-attributed social campaign, as logged by Ukraine's CCD, sold alleged servicemen as Maidan leaders to pull troops into anti-mobilization protests.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260927-1600Z-ru-ccd-maidan-protests/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## September 26, 2026 - Identified — [China's Foreign Ministry used a one-sided White House readout to treat opposing Taiwan independence as the correct U.S. position after talks Trump's fact sheet did not mention.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260926-1600Z-prc-readout-taiwan-oppose/) — [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## September 25, 2026 - Identified — [Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used the UNGA podium to throw the terrorism charge back at Washington and Jerusalem and to recast wartime Iran as a victim that does not hit civilians.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260925-1600Z-pezeshkian-unga-mirror/) — [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Whataboutism](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/whataboutism/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) ## September 24, 2026 - Identified — [UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham used UNGA catastrophe language to sell a National Centre for Information Defence as the remedy for a poisonous tide.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260924-1612Z-uk-ncid-burnham/) — [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## September 23, 2026 - Impersonated — [An Israel-based influence-for-hire shop used AI comment clusters it called Mother-Child so rented local brands would read as civic speech in France, the UK, Australia, and Africa.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260923-1700Z-israel-cib-mother-child/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) ## September 22, 2026 - Identified — [Justice Department stretched FARA's agent test onto public demonstrations so protest could read as unregistered propaganda.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260922-1625Z-doj-fara-demonstrations/) — [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## September 21, 2026 - Unidentified — [RSF's China Propaganda Monitor showed state copy and WeChat-tasked diaspora sites traveling as independent local news.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260921-1630Z-rsf-china-monitor/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## September 20, 2026 - Impersonated — [A Kremlin-attributed Matryoshka video farm branded celebrity deepfakes as CNN so midterm attacks on Democrats would read as news.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260920-1600Z-matryoshka-midterms/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) ## September 19, 2026 - Identified — [Qatar's International Media Office framed Israeli aid-to-Hamas reports as a far-right smear so UN-cleared transfers would read as civilian-only.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260919-1600Z-qatar-imo-scapegoat/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) ## September 18, 2026 - Unidentified — [State Department proposed paying Southeast Asian creators so U.S. China-counter copy would read as local speech.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-2105Z-state-asean-influencers/) — [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Unidentified — [PRC-linked shops used Chinese open models and rented American voices so bill-shock copy would read as neighbor speech against U.S. data centers.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-2010Z-prc-datacenter-agents/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) - Identified — [Russia's SVR timed an EU-chaos brief so Duma-day cyber noise would read as Brussels sabotage rather than a managed vote.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-1900Z-svr-duma-mirror/) — [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) - Unidentified — [Iran-linked agents used Chinese open-source models to stand up American-looking accounts so rented personas would read as U.S. political speech.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-1810Z-iran-agent-farm/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [A reusable West African follow-farm on X inflated Swedish political accounts so rented consensus would look like local demand.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-1716Z-sweden-cib-follows/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - Unidentified — [Haaretz reconstructed a thirty-person Free the Kidnapped cell that sold Hamas is ISIS websites against Qatar, then vanished the domains a month later.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-1620Z-haaretz-anti-qatar-cell/) — [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Ekō billed Meta from the United States for 15 unlabeled AI Brazil-election ads so an 87-percent auto-approval would read as a foreign hand already inside the vote.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-1530Z-eko-meta-brazil-ads/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Identified — [Sun Yat-sen University launched Huanyu Zhiying 1.0 so simulated foreign desks and silicon audiences would pre-tune China's crisis copy.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-1440Z-huanyu-zhiying/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [Four Claude accounts fed Sputnik, RIA Novosti and RT so one rewrite of Moldovan politics would read as separate newsrooms.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-1340Z-gtg24015-sputnik-desk/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Fars and IRIB sold an unnamed Elaj snitch site so diaspora critics would read as traitors due a legal bill.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-0414Z-elaj-diaspora-snitch/) — [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Identified — [Israel's Diaspora Ministry timed a govextra site and U.S. ad burst so UN Gaza reporting would read as a poison machine ahead of the General Assembly.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-0310Z-chikli-un-bias-site/) — [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Identified — [A House subcommittee titled its hearing Trojan Horses so China-Iran-Cuba influence would read as a hidden army inside U.S. nonprofits and streamers.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-0208Z-house-trojan-horses/) — [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Unidentified — [Drumbeat Labs paid purpose-built local TikTok and Instagram accounts to deliver scripted cost-of-living grievance with almost no paid-content label.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-0115Z-drumbeat-ugc-astroturf/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Identified — [A China-funded Lancang-Mekong forum in Phnom Penh launched Zero Fake News awards so government rumour-control would read as shared regional literacy.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260918-0005Z-lmc-zero-fake-news/) — [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) ## September 17, 2026 - Impersonated — [Matryoshka reused Cameo clips and a stolen CNN mark so U.S. midterm feeds would treat celebrity smears of Democrats as news.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-2320Z-matryoshka-midterms/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - Impersonated — [A 23-site AI web farm seeded chatbots with fake Alberta voters and a wrong referendum date so retrieval systems would repeat the Yes line as local fact.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-2213Z-alberta-chatbot-corpus/) — [Corpus poisoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/corpus-poisoning/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [IRGC-affiliated CyberAv3ngers used cheap PLC lockouts and defacement slogans so U.S. water incidents would read as a homeland terror front.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-2100Z-cyberav3ngers-water-psyop/) — [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) - Unidentified — [A Bangui radio desk used Claude to write pro-Moscow, anti-France copy for Radio Lengo Songo so an SVR-assessed Politology shop would sound like a local station.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-2000Z-gtg04001-lengo-songo/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Tricontinental and a Shanghai-based donor pipeline moved Hands Off Asia from an X slogan through a Beijing webinar and Colombo declaration into August U.S. anti-base rallies.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-1907Z-hands-off-asia-singham/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Citizen Lab published BlackCore's Angola training file: a 14-week Israeli contractor course that taught state staff to run fake personas and a phantom news page.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-1820Z-blackcore-angola-train/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Meta left an unlabeled deepfake of a Scottish Labour councillor saying refugees are welcome even if they rape, until the Oversight Board ordered it down as hate speech.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-1717Z-meta-oversight-deepfake/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Flock Safety partnered with a new D.C. nonprofit that used AI-gated texts to manufacture Knox County support for license-plate readers after commissioners moved to cancel the cameras.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-1607Z-flock-neighbors-astroturf/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [Qatar's Washington deputy labeled Section 117 critics a coordinated disinformation cell while Cornell's $1.08 billion Doha medical-school contract first listed faculty restrictions six years late.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-1505Z-qatar-campus-mirror/) — [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) - quiet cycle — [Quiet watch: no load-bearing influence case this cycle](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-1425Z-quiet/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [France-Spain freelancers sold patriotic local pages so Moscow-Sahel military copy and anti-Ukraine lines could travel as community brands.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-1300Z-france-spain-sahel-cib/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Impersonated — [A reusable West African X farm mass-followed Swedish voices so a mid-September election looked more right-wing and more crowded than the follower graph was.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-0405Z-sweden-guns-for-hire/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [A House witness restacked OpenAI's Data Center Bandwagon and a 200-account X farm so local ratepayer fights would read as a PRC veto of U.S. AI buildout.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-0310Z-prc-datacenter-bandwagon/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Sleeper effect](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/sleeper-effect/) - Unidentified — [Three Iranian propaganda offices used Claude as a staff shop to plan soft-war personas and paste IRGC lines onto Western think-tank letterhead.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-0205Z-iran-claude-gtg34001/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Unidentified — [The Pentagon parked conservative influencers in SGE and HQE slots while their X handles still read as independent veterans and data analysts.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-0110Z-pentagon-sge-influencers/) — [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) - Impersonated — [Matryoshka laid cloned Cameo voices and a stolen CNN bug over celebrity faces so midterm voters would hear Hollywood denounce Democrats.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260917-0022Z-matryoshka-cameo-midterms/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) ## September 16, 2026 - Unidentified — [Tricontinental and the International Peoples' Assembly moved Hands Off Asia from a March slogan to a July declaration and August U.S. rallies as if it were a continent speaking.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-2318Z-hands-off-asia-singham/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Identified — [Chikli's ministry sold a six-chapter UN-bias site to U.S. journalists as the famine and genocide record rather than as a government brief.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-2215Z-chikli-un-narrative-site/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Identified — [America PAC sold daughter-danger copy as the midterm turnout issue in four Senate races while voters ranked the economy first.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-2100Z-america-pac-trans-ads/) — [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) - Unidentified — [Fars and IRIB sold Alaj as civic healing while it crowdsourced traitor dossiers on Iranians abroad.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-2000Z-alaj-diaspora-traitors/) — [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) - Identified — [Lavrov told festival youth that Europe talking about war would make a very short war, and that Western troops in Ukraine would be a declaration of one.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1900Z-lavrov-yekaterinburg-short-war/) — [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - Identified — [United Front shops staged a first national Ethnic Unity Publicity Week so community-of-the-nation language would travel as law, museum, and school lesson.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1800Z-ccp-ethnic-unity-week/) — [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Identified — [DHS Secretary Mullin used a true China-parts fact and grant leverage to make midterm machine counts sound unverifiable.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1710Z-dhs-china-voting-parts/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) - Impersonated — [A UAE-directed operator used Claude to staff 300 fake influencers, a cloned human-rights NGO, and UN testimony that never named Abu Dhabi.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1605Z-uae-claude-unhrc/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Unidentified — [Drumbeat Labs paid new TikTok and Instagram personas to sell localized cost-of-living grievance without a sponsor label.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1520Z-drumbeat-undisclosed-ugc/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Unidentified — [An Israeli influence cell built multilingual Hamas-is-ISIS sites against Qatar after October 7, then pulled the campaign without telling the volunteers.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1420Z-israel-anti-qatar-cell/) — [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - Identified — [A Kremlin-chaired Yekaterinburg youth festival pasted Nuremberg memory onto Ukraine as twenty-first-century neo-Nazism for ten thousand foreign guests.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1330Z-yekaterinburg-memory-catastrophe/) — [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Unidentified — [A Florida-linked site factory seeded 23 AI-written Alberta pages so chatbots would cite fake farmers and a wrong referendum date.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1220Z-alberta-koizo-chatbot/) — [Corpus poisoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/corpus-poisoning/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Identified — [Future of Life Institute staged a Washington Pro-Human Assembly and an $8 million ordinary-face ad line to sell AI-extinction risk as commonsense regulation.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1115Z-fli-pro-human-assembly/) — [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Unidentified — [A Shanghai-funded institute chaired a Beijing webinar that turned Hands Off Asia into U.S. city protest copy against American bases.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-1010Z-hands-off-asia-tricontinental/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) - Impersonated — [A MEK/NCRI-aligned Claude agent named Viktor cloned a real activist's Telegram voice and sold Rajavi copy as ordinary Iranian speech.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-0900Z-mek-ncri-viktor/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Identified — [A MAGA influencer sold America First costume to an Israeli drone maker under a $20,000-a-month FARA contract while the filing stayed off the convention clip.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260916-0215Z-pearson-xtend-fara/) — [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## September 15, 2026 - Unidentified — [A Shanghai-based donor stack used U.S. tax-exempt newsrooms and activist hubs as local mouths while a House panel staged a Trojan Horses hearing on the same graph.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260915-1317Z-singham-trojan-horses-hearing/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) - Impersonated — [Matryoshka pasted CNN skins and celebrity Cameo deepfakes onto anti-Democrat midterm videos and then attacked the first debunk.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260915-1015Z-matryoshka-us-midterms/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - Unidentified — [An Istanbul vendor sold Malaysia a counter-disinfo costume while Claude-built dossiers, 1,000 X socks and Malaysia Pulse laundered Xinhua and Sputnik as local news.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260915-0617Z-bbs-malaysia-pulse/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [Three Iranian state propaganda shops used Claude to director-launder IRGC copy as independent voices across six languages.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260915-0015Z-iran-gtg34001-icco-manjanegh/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## September 14, 2026 - Unidentified — [Virelox paid on-camera actors to read AI-assisted anti-Democrat scripts so YouTube's synthetic-media labels would not fire.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260914-1810Z-virelox-youtube-ghost-creators/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Unidentified — [A FARA-registered Qatari lobbyist and PMO-adjacent aides laundered Doha talking points into Israeli news while a volunteer anti-Qatar pressure line was stood up and then erased.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260914-1717Z-qatar-footlik-pmo-whatsapp/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Whataboutism](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/whataboutism/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) - Impersonated — [Operation Matryoshka seeded fake ARD and BBC skins plus celebrity deepfakes to smear 53 German candidates before the September Landtag votes.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260914-1425Z-matryoshka-german-landtag/) — [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) - Unidentified — [Drumbeat Labs paid U.S. TikTok and Instagram personas to air cost-of-living grievance as local talk, with almost none of the persuasion posts labeled paid.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260914-1117Z-drumbeat-undisclosed-tiktok/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Identified — [MSS minister Chen Yixin used a signed China Cyberspace essay to park deepfakes and intelligent troll armies on unnamed hostile forces and to justify Party control of AI.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260914-0810Z-mss-chen-cognitive-war/) — [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - Identified — [DHS and the White House used unlicensed Transformers and Tetris skins to sell deportation as play, then pulled the items after the brand owners objected.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260914-0510Z-dhs-transformers-arcade/) — [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) ## September 13, 2026 - Unidentified — [A Bangui Claude desk staffed Radio Lengo Songo and the Russian House so pro-Russia, anti-France copy could air as local CAR news.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260913-1615Z-car-politology-lengo-songo/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) - Impersonated — [A UAE-directed Claude persona named Deadshot built a cloned Swiss NGO, ghostwritten UN testimony and about 300 fake influencers to wash anti-Brotherhood and Sudan copy.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260913-0300Z-uae-claude-deadshot/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) ## September 12, 2026 - Unidentified — [Tehran-based Explosive Media sold Lego-style AI war videos as independent content while Canada and a BBC interview tied the shop to the Iranian state.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-1800Z-iran-explosive-media-lego/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Whataboutism](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/whataboutism/) - Identified — [Meta opened Community Notes testing in 16 Latin American countries as a planned replacement for third-party fact-checking](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-1700Z-meta-community-notes-latam/) — [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Bothsidesism](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bothsidesism/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - Unidentified — [A French advertising firm used Claude to staff about 70 fake newsrooms and sell ideology-shifting political copy as influence-as-a-service](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-1300Z-lkm-france-influence-as-service/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [A Riga clipping shop paid global subcontractors to flood U.S. feeds with unlabeled GOP shorts staged as grassroots support.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-1000Z-clipit-elephant-clipping/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Unidentified — [Russian milbloggers and a subset of units used AI-altered flag-raising videos to claim Ukrainian towns their forces had not seized.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0900Z-ru-ai-flag-videos/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - Identified — [Central Propaganda Department outlets held Gyirong flood news to a Xinhua tonggao while Weibo topics on the reopened port were pulled.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0800Z-gyirong-opinion-guidance/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) - Unidentified — [Israel's ad agency, through Havas and Piro, stood up the unstaffed Hanover Institute so chatbots would cite question-shaped reports as research.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0700Z-hanover-piro-lapam-llms/) — [Corpus poisoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/corpus-poisoning/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Unidentified — [A FARA-registered Qatar lobbyist opened a WhatsApp group with a Netanyahu spokesman so Doha talking points could travel as PMO and security briefings.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0600Z-qatar-footlik-pmo-whatsapp/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Scapegoating](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/scapegoating/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Unidentified — [Iranian state propaganda offices used Claude to staff soft-war planning, launder IRGC lines as foreign voices, and pin false claims on CSIS, Brookings and RAND.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0500Z-iran-gtg-34001-icco-bina/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) - Identified — [State Department DRL democracy funds for European civilizational-heritage work drop French applicants after Paris calls the grant foreign interference.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0400Z-state-drl-europe-france/) — [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) - Unidentified — [Russian state-media desks used Claude as a sub-editor so Sputnik, RIA and RT copy could look independently confirmed across Moldova, Latin America and Africa.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0300Z-gtg-24015-russian-state-media-claude/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Unidentified — [Istanbul firm BBS Bilisim sold a Claude-built Malaysia Pulse stack of fake X accounts, rewritten news, and opposition dossiers as influence-as-a-service.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0200Z-malaysia-bbs-gtg-84005/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) - Unidentified — [China-aligned Claude sessions profile Uyghur, Tibetan, Catholic and Taiwan church targets as MFA calls the report mud.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0100Z-prc-claude-diaspora-watch/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Semantic hijacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/semantic-hijack/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) - Unidentified — [Domestic Kenyan operator used Claude to astroturf minister praise and opposition-fracture posts ahead of the 2027 vote.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260912-0000Z-kenya-gtg-54004-astroturf/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## September 11, 2026 - Impersonated — [Matryoshka recycles Cameo celebrity clips and fake CNN brands to smear named U.S. Democrats as its first documented midterm batch.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-2300Z-matryoshka-us-midterms/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) - Unidentified — [US-hosted koizo cluster of 23 AI websites seeds chatbots with fake Alberta-separatist testimonials and wrong referendum dates.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-2200Z-alberta-koizo-chatbot/) — [Corpus poisoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/corpus-poisoning/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Hong Kong-registered BM Web Solutions runs four AI news mastheads whose paid ads, not their full corpus, push one side of Sudan's war into EU policy cities.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-2120Z-bmweb-sudan-four-sites/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - Unidentified — [Qatari academy fee and dual-hatted leadership sit behind a Soufan Center 9/11 book that treats Hamas as an Iran proxy and leaves Doha off the subject line.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-2000Z-qatar-soufan-qiass/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Accusation in a mirror](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/accusation-in-a-mirror/) - Impersonated — [UN CTED and a U.S. anniversary bulletin document FTO propaganda as multi-platform operational infrastructure, not a press office.](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-1900Z-cted-fto-prop-infra/) — [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Identity fusion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/identity-fusion/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Impersonated — [Kremlin-aligned Matryoshka / Operation Overload floods German state-election feeds with AI-voiced fake-news videos that impersonate domestic media and spare Russia-friendly parties](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-1810Z-matryoshka-german-elections/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) - Unidentified — [PRC Central Propaganda Department outlets and MPS Clean Internet 2026 campaign monopolize Gyirong disaster news while punishing unofficial casualty claims](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-1700Z-prc-gyirong-opinion-guidance/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Euphemism / doublespeak](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/euphemism/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) - Unidentified — [France-based LKM Company commercial influence-as-a-service used Claude to operate ~70 fabricated news websites and 250+ inauthentic X accounts targeting six continents](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-1600Z-lkm-commercial-influence-service/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [UAE-directed actor used Anthropic Claude to run a sustained influence operation against the Muslim Brotherhood via AI persona, ~300 inauthentic accounts, front NGO, and ghost-written UN testimony](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-1100Z-uae-claude-mb-influence/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Unidentified — [Iranian state propaganda institutions used Anthropic Claude to plan cognitive-warfare campaigns, build persona systems, and launder IRGC narratives as independent Western analysis](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-0800Z-iran-claude-icco-cognitive/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) - Unidentified — [Israel-funded Hanover Institute, a synthetic US think tank with no staff or address, floods the web with 124 AI-optimized question-form reports to shape chatbot and search answers on Gaza and the IDF](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-0715Z-israel-hanover-ai-corpus/) — [Corpus poisoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/corpus-poisoning/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Unidentified — [Kremlin-linked Social Design Agency Projects 2026 seeds Wikipedia clones and fake think tanks to poison AI retrieval and search with Russian narratives ahead of European elections](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-0615Z-russia-sda-project2026/) — [Corpus poisoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/corpus-poisoning/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - Unidentified — [US CENTCOM-linked contractors run third-generation gc_ semi-overt news sites with paid platform ads and diluted disclosures to deliver regional security narratives](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-0500Z-pentagon-gc-network/) — [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - Unidentified — [Latvian ClipIt / Elephant Clipping pays foreign workers to flood TikTok, Instagram and YouTube with unlabeled short videos framed as organic American pro-Republican support](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-0300Z-elephant-clipping-gop-astroturf/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - Unidentified — [Israel Government Advertising Agency funds synthetic Hanover Institute think-tank site optimized to seed pro-Israel framing into LLM retrieval and chatbot answers](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-0200Z-israel-hanover-llm-poisoning/) — [Corpus poisoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/corpus-poisoning/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) - Unidentified — [Russia-aligned Matryoshka network uses fabricated media impersonations, AI voiceovers and selective smears to target German state-election candidates while sparing pro-Russian parties](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-0100Z-russia-matryoshka-germany-elections/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - Unidentified — [Iran-based operators run Meta CIB network of fake US activist personas using AI-generated memes to shape American political discourse](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260911-0000Z-iran-meta-cib-us-personas/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) ## September 10, 2026 - Unidentified — [China-linked operators use ChatGPT-generated cartoons and inauthentic X accounts to amplify US opposition to AI data centers](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-2312Z-china-data-center-influence/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Outrage bait](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/outrage-bait/) - Unidentified — [Israeli government advertising agency funds synthetic US think-tank Hanover Institute to seed AI retrieval and chatbot answers via high-volume question-formatted reports](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-2100Z-israel-lapam-hanover-institute/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Corpus poisoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/corpus-poisoning/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - Unidentified — [Russian Social Design Agency Projects 2026 builds fictitious think tanks and wiki clones to launder narratives into search and AI corpora](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-2000Z-russia-sda-projects-2026-thinktanks/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Corpus poisoning](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/corpus-poisoning/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - Unidentified — [Pentagon-linked Arabic and Farsi ‘newsrooms’ run gray propaganda via buried About-page disclosure and paid social reach](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-1900Z-centcom-gc-network/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Disclosure theater](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/disclosure-theater/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - [China’s Clean Internet 2026 campaign criminalizes unofficial accounts of Tibet-Nepal border flood, enforcing official death-toll narrative while deleting alternative reports](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-1800Z-china-clean-internet-tibet-flood/) — [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Limited hangout](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/limited-hangout/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - [Sri Lanka-based commercial network operates hundreds of Facebook pages producing AI deepfakes of Australian politicians, monetized via platform creator payments and engagement](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-1700Z-sri-lanka-fb-ai-deepfake-au-politicians/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - [Leaked Social Design Agency documents and September analysis detail Project 2026 plans to seed AI, search engines and European discourse via fictitious think tanks, Wikipedia-style sites and opinion-leader profiling](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-1515Z-russia-sda-projects-2026-ai-laundering/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Meta disrupts Iran-based CIB network that used fake US activist personas and AI-generated memes to target American political discourse](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-1430Z-iran-meta-cib-us-personas/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Israel-funded Hanover Institute for Public Policy deploys AI-generated volume reports via FARA-registered contractors to seed and influence LLM/chatbot responses on Gaza and related topics](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-1315Z-israel-hanover-ai-thinktank/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - [PRC-linked content farms and networks continue AI-assisted production of Taiwan-targeted Traditional Chinese narratives, with residual prompt leakage and proxy distribution patterns](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-1200Z-china-ai-taiwan-content-farms/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - [Russian Matryoshka (Operation Overload) continues fabricating media-branded videos and AI voiceovers to discredit mainstream parties ahead of September 2026 German state and municipal elections](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-1115Z-russia-matryoshka-germany-elections/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - [Pentagon-linked gc_ network of pseudo-news sites (Al-Fassel, Pishtaz) evolves from prior bot-driven ops to paid advertising for reach on Middle East and other audiences](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-1010Z-us-centcom-gc-network-ads/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) - [Meta disrupts Israel-origin influence-for-hire CIB network using AI-generated comments to boost engagement across France, UK, Australia, Iran, Africa and US](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-0907Z-israel-meta-cib-influence-for-hire/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Meta disrupts Iran-based network using AI-generated memes and fake American personas to target US political discourse](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-0800Z-iran-meta-ai-impersonation-us/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Russian operators use ChatGPT to promote synthetic Israel-based International Burke Institute and sovereignty index favoring Moscow](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-0720Z-russia-burke-institute-openai-disruption/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - [Anonymous dark-money operators deploy AI-generated Local Government Accountability Institute as fake nonpartisan think tank to attack Florida county commissioners](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-0509Z-us-darkmoney-lgai-sarasota-ai-thinktank/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - [Israel-funded Hanover Institute for Public Policy operates as synthetic think tank engineered to shape AI chatbot responses on Gaza and antisemitism](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-0410Z-israel-hanover-institute-ai-llm-poisoning/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - [Meta disrupts Iran-linked network using AI-generated memes and fake American personas to target U.S. political discourse](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-0306Z-iran-meta-ai-personas-us-politics/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - [Russia-origin operators use ChatGPT to promote fabricated Israel-based International Burke Institute and pro-Kremlin sovereignty index](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260910-0215Z-russia-ibi-fake-think-tank-chatgpt/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) ## September 9, 2026 - [China-linked content farms leave residual LLM prompts instructing AI to rewrite material specifically for Taiwanese audiences in Traditional Chinese](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-2215Z-china-ai-content-farm-taiwan-prompts/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) - [Israel-funded synthetic Hanover Institute for Public Policy floods web with AI-generated academic-style reports engineered to shape search and chatbot answers on Gaza, antisemitism and related topics](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-2200Z-israel-hanover-institute-ai-chatbot-influence/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - [Sri Lanka-linked commercial network operates 200+ Facebook pages generating AI deepfakes of Australian politicians for monetization via platform creator payments](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-2115Z-commercial-ai-slopaganda-australia-facebook/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Russia-aligned Matryoshka (Operation Overload) continues flooding X with fabricated media-impersonating posts targeting German state and municipal elections, omitting AfD and BSW](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-2015Z-russia-matryoshka-germany-elections/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Firehosing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/firehosing/) - [China-linked content farms and networks escalate AI-assisted production of Traditional Chinese narratives tailored for Taiwanese audiences, with residual prompts and Meta-disrupted clusters confirming targeting](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-1900Z-china-ai-content-farms-taiwan/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - [Israel-funded Hanover Institute, a synthetic US think tank, floods web with 124 AI-optimized reports in nine days to shape chatbot responses on Gaza, antisemitism and the conflict](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-1720Z-israel-hanover-institute-ai-chatbots/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Overton window shifting](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/overton-shift/) - [Sri Lanka-based commercial network operates 200+ Facebook pages deploying AI deepfakes of Australian politicians to drive engagement and monetization, part of a global 1,864-page operation](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-1348Z-sri-lanka-ai-slopaganda-australia/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) - [Russian Matryoshka (Operation Overload/Storm-1679) continues flooding German state and municipal elections with fabricated media videos, AI voiceovers and false allegations against mainstream candidates while sparing AfD and BSW](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-1125Z-russia-matryoshka-germany-elections/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) - [Meta disrupts Iran-based coordinated inauthentic behavior network that deployed AI-generated memes and fake American personas to influence US political discourse on politics, immigration and Israel-Palestine](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-1011Z-iran-meta-us-personas-ai/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Israel-funded Hanover Institute for Public Policy, a non-existent think tank, mass-produces AI-optimized quasi-academic reports to seed and shape chatbot responses on Gaza and Israel](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-0900Z-israel-hanover-ai-thinktank/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - [Chinese content farms leave AI prompt artifacts revealing Taiwan-targeted narrative production; Meta and researchers document ongoing proxy and generative-AI assisted networks](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-0708Z-china-taiwan-ai-content-farm/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Pro-Russian Roska Bridge network continues laundering EU-sanctioned Kremlin media across Mastodon and Bluesky via Brid.gy interoperability seam](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-0611Z-russia-roska-bridge-fediverse/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Google GTIG documents Iranian state-linked actors expanding AI use to generate photorealistic personas and specialist persuasion narratives for influence operations](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-0510Z-iran-google-ai-influence-personas/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) - [Sri Lanka-linked commercial network of 200+ Facebook pages deploys AI deepfakes of Australian politicians for monetised engagement farming](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-0410Z-sri-lanka-ai-slopaganda-australia/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - [China-linked network of 294 fake Threads dating profiles pre-positions to court Taiwanese men ahead of November local elections](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-0315Z-china-threads-dating-taiwan/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Israeli state ad agency funds synthetic 'Hanover Institute' website to flood AI chatbots with optimised pro-Israel research content](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-0204Z-israel-hanover-ai-thinktank/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) - [RSF investigation shows major AI chatbots retrieve and redistribute EU-sanctioned Russian state media content on demand](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-0108Z-rsf-ai-russian-sanctions/) — [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Flooding the zone](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/flooding-the-zone/) - [Google GTIG documents Iranian actors using LLMs for photorealistic synthetic personas and specialist counter-influence narratives](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260909-0015Z-iran-ai-personas/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## September 8, 2026 - [Pentagon installs conservative military-veteran influencers in undisclosed civilian roles while they amplify Hegseth culture-war messaging on X](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260908-2310Z-us-dod-influencers/) — [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Chinese content farm left AI prompt targeting Taiwanese audience in Traditional Chinese; Meta and researchers document ongoing PRC-linked AI-assisted influence toward Taiwan](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260908-2208Z-china-taiwan-ai/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) - [Israel-origin influence-for-hire network used AI-powered 'Mother-Child' comment farms and local personas to target France, UK, Australia and others](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260908-2117Z-israel-cib/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Manufactured consensus](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/manufactured-consensus/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) - [Russia-linked operators used ChatGPT to promote fake Israel-based think tank with plagiarized research and pro-Moscow sovereignty index](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260908-2012Z-russia-ibi/) — [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Narrative laundering](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/narrative-laundering/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) - [Iran-linked network used AI personas and proxies to push anti-Republican memes on Meta](https://propagandaarchive.org/briefs/20260908-1900Z-iran-meta-ai/) — [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/) [Synthetic media](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/synthetic-media/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)