Das russische Desinformationsnetzwerk „Matryoshka“ wandert zu Bluesky ab, während der Exodus von X weitergeht

The Russian disinformation network “Matryoshka” has launched a new campaign on the Bluesky social network. Eliot Higgins, founder of the investigative journalism group *Bellingcat*, has been one of the first researchers to detect its activity. So far, four Russian-made fake videos have been identified on the platform.

Each disinformation video begins with a real person — a professor, a student from a top university, or a recognized expert — introducing themselves and beginning to speak on a topic unrelated to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The footage then transitions to segments that do not show the speaker on screen — while what sounds like their voice continues narrating. In these moments, the speaker seems to promote claims that the West should end its support for Ukraine, that Europe should align its future with Russia, and that Volodymyr Zelensky is a dictator — or even a vampire.

The videos are published alongside phrases like “Do you think that’s true?” or “You can confirm or deny this information, can’t you?” accompanied by tags of well-known media outlets and fact-checkers. They are then reposted by hundreds of other accounts. The number of shares reach the hundreds on X (formerly Twitter), while on the newer Bluesky, reposts remain low — the most widely shared video has so far garnered 288 reposts, and another just fo

They’re using that [“40 to 60” method](https://disinfo.detector.media/en/post/how-russian-propaganda-uses-the-40-to-60-method-to-achieve-its-own-goals) when part of the video is truth and it’s hard to deal with propaganda of that kind.

The truth part is the videos with forced conscription, I recognized one of them because even Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsmen was reacting on it, there you can see Volen TCC taking man out of the ambulance on a stretcher, loading him into a van, and driving away ([Source in UA media](https://novyny.live/ru/tck-uk/z-likarni-u-viiskovu-chastinu-na-volini-stavsia-skandal-z-ttsk-220599.html) and Ombudsmen reaction https://t .me/dmytro_lubinetzs/7500)

Hopefully Bluesky can manage to deal with the bots, I’ve read they have their hands full with user reports.

But I was told X was the devil for allowing such trolls on its platform. Where is everyone going to run to next?