Operation Doppelgänger: Inside the Russian Influence Network Targeting the US Midterms, Israel’s Election, and France’s 2027 Race

Alethea has identified a new wave of Operation Doppelgänger — the Russian state-backed influence operation run by the Social Design Agency (SDA) and Structura — running simultaneously against three elections: the US midterms on November 3, Israel’s election on October 27, and France’s 2027 presidential race.

Between October 7 and 9, more than 50 fake accounts posted in synchronized waves, amplified by over 1,000 bot accounts into an estimated 150,000+ quote-posts on X. Links routed readers to cloned versions of Israel’s Walla! News and France’s Le Parisien and Le Point — fabricated news sites built and held in reserve for 17 months before this wave went live.

The full report covers:

• How the network’s “Invisible Ink” amplification technique evades keyword-based monitoring
• The six narratives it’s pushing across English, French and Hebrew
• The attribution evidence tying this wave to Doppelgänger’s documented playbook
• Why fabricated articles from the cloned sites are already indexed by Google, and the risk that AI assistants could cite them in answers about the elections

The full report is available to download below. To request a briefing on your organization's risk posture, visit alethea.com/contact.