Russian propaganda sites target Georgia with disinformation
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Three websites launder sanctioned Russian content and amplify anti-West narratives about Georgia's elections and protests.
The DFRLab identified three websites—The Intel Drop, newsnet.fr, and Canal666—that republish and amplify content from sanctioned Russian entities including New Eastern Outlook (NEO), Strategic Culture Foundation, RT, and South Front. These sites target Georgia with disinformation narratives falsely claiming Western interference in elections, CIA orchestration of protests, and alleged coup attempts. Content originates from sanctioned Russian propaganda outlets and is manually duplicated or republished through automated mirroring across English, French, and Polish-language platforms. The campaigns intensified ahead of Georgia's October 4, 2024 local elections, with articles misrepresenting legitimate election fraud concerns and portraying Georgia's pro-democracy movement as Western-backed destabilization. The websites use Cloudflare hosting, hidden timestamps, and internal APIs to obscure content sourcing and maintain plausible deniability of direct sanctions violation.
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Source reporting: https://dfrlab.org/2025/11/28/suspicious-websites-amplify-narratives-from-sanctioned-russian-entities-targeting-georgia
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