Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targeting the 2025 German election, 2024
Reportedon one origin only: 1 distinct origin, 1 tied to no party.
The dataset records the Storm-1516 online disinformation campaign targeting the February 2025 German election, as documented by Alliance4Europe. It codes the incident as influence operation, apparent goal compromise domestic / EU politics, target internet / Social media / News, location Germany; the dataset records it as running from November 2024 to 2024-12-31, and the date shown is the start of that period. The Leiden dataset includes incidents linked to Russia by officials, incidents fitting a pattern of officially suspected attacks, or incidents backed by journalistic evidence, and its authors call the data speculative and subject to change.
- When
- 1 November 2024
- Where
- Germany, Germany
- What
- other
- Acting party
- Government of Russia
- Attribution
- Attributed by independent sources. Listed as a Russian operation in the Leiden University Russian Operations Against Europe dataset; the dataset and the source it cites link the incident to Russia.
- In the record
- Published 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC · revision 1 · leiden
Sources
- Evidence Leiden University, Russian Operations Against Europe dataset
- Evidence Alliance4Europe
History
| When | Field | From | To | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC | status | null | reported | P1 leiden: researched from cited sources and graded by the one rule |
Cite or reuse
The War Record, "Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targeting the 2025 German election, 2024", ev-20261027-1h4c, revision 1, https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-1h4c/