Portal Kombat is a Moscow-based network of (in March 2024) 193 websites created to disseminate news stories with a pro-Russian slant. Military and cybersecurity experts at France's VIGINUM(fr) agency detected the network. Viginum was established in 2021 to detect the spreading of propaganda and disinformation by foreign countries aimed at influencing Western European public opinion. Sites include pravda EN, pravda FR, pravda DE, pravda PL, and pravda ES. The sites averaged traffic of 31,000 visits per month in November 2023.[1][2]
References
edit- ^ Presse, AFP-Agence France. "Francia Revela Una Red Que Difunde Propaganda Rusa En Europa Y EEUU". www.barrons.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ Willsher, Kim; O'Carroll, Lisa (12 February 2024). "French security experts identify Moscow-based disinformation network". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 March 2024.