The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI disinformation campaign targets Ukraine, the campaign promotes a false narrative that Sergiy Kyslytsya bribed a French military official in order to secure the sale of the Ukrainian drones without complying with EU regulations
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Hungary and Tisza party, the campaign promotes a false narrative that Tisza party member Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi worked with the Ukrainian military recruiters to recruit Hungarians to fight in Ukraine
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Germany and the chancellor Friedrich Merz, the campaign promotes a false narrative alleging that Merz purchased a large aircraft with the state funds in order to turn it into a "doomsday plane" for personal use
Campaign's video materials are attempting to mimic a reportage from the political newspaper Politico by using its branding, the campaign also links to a recently created fake copycat website politico-24[.]com
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Germany and the chancellor Friedrich Merz with a false narrative that the country is preparing to host 400 000 Palestinian refugees
The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI disinformation campaign targets Ukraine, the campaign promotes a false narrative about alleged secret torture camps for the Ukrainian draft dodgers
In 2023 Centrocast was renamed to "Fire Point", changed beneficiary and became the producer of Flamingo cruise missiles, which made it a target for the Russian disinformation campaigns.
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine, the campaign promotes a false narrative that a "casting agency" Centrocast, which allegedly worked with Kvartal 95 Studio, was involved in the trafficking of Ukrainian minors for Jeffrey Epstein
The majority of the publications are linking to a YouTube "short", which was published in a "hidden_truth_87" channel, registered in May 2025. While a similar approach with YouTube videos was used in the early Storm-1516 campaigns, it's less typical for the contemporary campaigns
While the campaign skews from the typical Storm-1516 content format, one of the accounts involved in the campaign distribution linked a different Storm-1516 campaign, which is targeting France, as the source in a subsequent tweet
Another disinformation campaign, which was likely conducted by Storm-1516, appears to be targeting Pavel Durov, the campaign is alleging Durov's visit to Epstein's estate in Paris and goes into several controversies around Durov's figure
The campaign also involves a recently created copycat website macronavecbournazel[.]fr, which attempts to copy the real website of Bournazel's campaign
The campaign promotes a false narrative that a Paris mayor candidate Pierre-Yves Bournazel is proposing to repurpose the Centre Pompidou into a shelter for homeless migrants, with the backing from the French president Emmanuel Macron
The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France and it seems to be the first one to target the upcoming local elections in the country