Most disinformation research measures how propaganda shifts public attitudes over months and years. This study is the first in Lithuania to look at what happens in the hours and days after an incident, when the power grid fails or an airport closes. Repsense analysed 358,156 posts about twelve infrastructure sites and the biggest four crises that hit them.

Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centres brought parts of Russia’s digital infrastructure to a standstill earlier this month. As reports emerged of a dramatic collapse in automated traffic from the tech giant’s networks, a more ambitious claim began circulating: the strikes had also crippled Russia’s notorious troll farms. The evidence was less convincing. Repsense tested the claim against 1.4 million posts and comments in Lithuania and France. In neither country did high-risk pro-Russian content decline.

The Commission president has called manipulation of the information space warfare, and Europe's counter-disinformation tools were built for something much smaller.

SEB has provided €1M in venture debt financing to Repsense, a Lithuanian artificial intelligence startup. It is SEB's first deal of this kind in Lithuania and the first venture debt financing in the country provided by a local bank. The financing will speed up Repsense’s next stage of growth.

Forget trench coats and dead drops. In Germany, attracting the attention of suspected Russian handlers may require something rather more 2026: praising Vladimir Putin online and waving a Russian flag outside the Bundestag.

For months, RTL journalist Angelique Geray lived online as “Katya”, a fictional pro-Russian influencer with a taste for Putin, Russian sailor shirts and conspicuous displays of Kremlin enthusiasm.

Suspected handlers eventually contacted her, moved the conversation to Telegram and offered paid assignments. Bitcoin included.

Repsense has become a member of AMEC, the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication. AMEC brings together media analytics companies, communication agencies, consultants, experts and researchers from around the world, and sets the global standards for communication measurement.