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How did we do that? With Tutki, our training platform designed to simulate disinformation campaigns. Tutki is also available as a standalone platform for trainers 🔗 https://tutki.tech/
We will also run another session in Tours on April 9th. See you there! 🔗 https://journalisme.com/programmation/samsa-checkfirst-2026/

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Train journalists and analysts to identify disinformation campaigns. Interactive scenarios, real-world simulations, and advanced OSINT tools.

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Check First Mar 13

Ahead of French local elections, we partnered with Samsa to help Radio France journalists to learn how to identify and analyze #disinformation campaigns in electoral context.

🔗 https://checkfirst.network/check-first-and-samsa-immerse-french-journalists-in-a-virtual-foreign-interference-campaign/

Check First and Samsa immerse French journalists in a virtual foreign interference campaign - CheckFirst

We constructed a one-day training with the French training organisation Samsa to help French journalists to learn how to identify and analyze information manipulation, disinformation campaigns, and coordinated inauthentic behavior in electoral context.

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Check First Mar 9

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➡️ https://checkfirst.network/newsletter/

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Check First Mar 9

📫 You've got mail! The March issue of our monthly newsletter 'Indeed' is out. This edition features a glimpse of our latest #investigation into the GRU's Information Operations Troops (VIO), using photographs of medals and #OSINT.
➡️ https://r.crossover.social/3gt9o97xzlxpfe.html?t=1773052413119

We tracked one of the most secretive Russian intelligence units thanks to medals (again)

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Check First Feb 9

If you have any questions on this report, please write to us at [email protected].

Read our full #investigation on our website 🔗 https://checkfirst.network/unveiling-grus-information-operations-troops-with-osint-and-medals/
Don't miss our updates by subscribing to Indeed, our monthly newsletter 🔗 https://checkfirst.network/newsletter/

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Check First Feb 9

Our visuals below provide you a first glance at our findings, with examples of units featuring a comprehensive description.

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Check First Feb 9

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀:
🏅 We have gathered 118 photos from specialised websites and forums.
🗺️ Thanks to them, we have concluded that the VIO is composed of at least 15 units across Russia.
🔎 These units are divided into three specialities: encryption/cryptoanalysis, computer network operations (CNO), and psychological operations.

Check First Feb 9

🔴 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧
Last year, we were able to unearth the infrastructure of the FSB's 16th Centre, combining #OSINT techniques and photos of old medals found on specialised websites. We replicated this method to explore the Information Operations Troops ( #VIO) of #Russia’s military intelligence service, better known by the acronym #GRU. While some units were already well‑documented, others have been scarcely recorded — or not at all — in open sources.

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Check First Feb 3

𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡
📍 Pan Piper, Paris
📆 Feb 5th, 11:35 (panel discussion) and 15:00 (podcast recording) CET

Registration link 🔗 https://video-mobile.org/RIE2026/programme-des-rencontres-de-linnovation-editoriale-2026-salle-1/
Programme 🔗 https://yp.events/fe97b31e-0b8d-4379-aa69-651a6910239a/Rencontres-de-linnovation-editoriale-2026

Programme des Rencontres de l'innovation éditoriale 2026 - Salle 1 - Rencontres de l'innovation éditoriale 2026

Dans la salle 1, les grandes questions et les débats centraux de cette année 2026 pour les médias et les communicants publics.

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Check First Feb 3

Are you in Paris this week?
We gladly invite you to attend https://Samsa.fr's 'Meetings of Editorial Innovation' and meet our CEO Hervé Letoqueux. He will be taking part in a panel discussion on new security protocols alongside Clémentine Forissier (Contexte), Elodie Vialle and Carole Caumont (https://Samsa.fr).
Hervé has also been invited to speak on the 'Propagations' podcast for a second time! His interview will be recorded in public at the same event.

Formations professionnelles et conseil pour médias et communication digitale- Samsa

Samsa.fr accompagne votre transformation éditoriale depuis 2010. Formations, conseil et accompagnements sur mesure en IA, vidéo, podcast, SEO et climat pour les professionnels des médias, de la communication et les métiers à dimension éditoriale. Développez vos compétences pour (re)connecter avec vos publics.

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