Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targeting the 2025 German election, 2025
Reportedon one origin only: 1 distinct origin, 1 tied to no party.
The dataset records the 2025 phase of the Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targeting the 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 January 2025 to 2025-02-28, 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 January 2025
- 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 2 · 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 | confirmed | P1 leiden: researched from cited sources and graded by the one rule |
| 2026-10-28 06:37 UTC | status | confirmed | reported | P1 refresh: new citations or desk-eng ruling; graded again by the one rule |
Cite or reuse
The War Record, "Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targeting the 2025 German election, 2025", ev-20261027-59gv, revision 2, https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-59gv/