The Doppelgänger bots network distributes the Little Big fake video made by the neural network and calling for the cancellation of sanctions

Publications of the video are accompanied by texts like: “The rapidly rising energy prices, the impending recession - this is not what the victory looks like. We need to restore bridges with Russia for our future. ” In addition to English, the bots promote a video in German, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Turkish and Greek, and, as the Insider told in the project “Bota Bitter”, the Kremlinbots spread it very actively, “throwing all the other things for it.”

The video began to spread less than a month before the elections to the German Bundestag, which should take place ahead of schedule on February 23, 2025.

As The Insider wrote earlier, after Donald Trump’s decision to temporarily suspend the assistance programs to Ukraine Doppelgänger, articles from the Clon sites of large European publications, calling for Europe, also stop helping Kyiv, as such assistance causes damage to Europeans themselves.

Last May, Doppelgänger distributed a clip made using artificial intelligence, ridicurating the then US President Joe Biden. The real people living in Moscow starred in it. Journalists found out that the Little Bug parody group was standing behind the video production, shooting a video in the Little Big style, but with proxy narratives. The musicians of the real Little Big group left Russia after the outbreak of war.

Doppelgänger is an extensive chain of bots on social networks and fake sites, distributing narratives beneficial to the Kremlin, including the war in Ukraine. At the beginning of 2024, the French authorities found out that behind one of the Doppelgänger attacks were under European sanctions of the National Technologies and Social Design Agency (ASP). The final owner of National Technologies LLC is Rostec. Also, the bots promoted the Eurobrics website, which has proven connections with the division of psychological operations (military unit 54777). Earlier, the European Union introduced a package of sanctions against the participants in the campaign to manipulate digital information, this package includes the above -mentioned “national technologies”, ASP, as well as several officers of the same military unit 54777 GRU.