{"id":31441,"date":"2026-08-08T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=31441"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:24:28","slug":"from-facebook-to-whatsapp-ec-spokesperson-guillaume-mercier-details-russian-hybrid-interference-at-eu-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=31441","title":{"rendered":"From Facebook to WhatsApp: EC Spokesperson Guillaume Mercier Details Russian Hybrid Interference at EU Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As detailed by European Commission spokesperson Guillaume Mercier, the EU witnessed foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) via various channels\u2014specifically Russian ones\u2014along with state media and diplomatic networks rapidly intensifying the migrant crisis across online platforms after the events in Ceuta. Mercier noted that documents regarding pro-Russian activity around this issue were also presented at an EU meeting by Danish Immigration and Integration Minister Morten B\u00f8dskov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, investigations by <strong>Maldita.es<\/strong> trace the online communication chain used to manipulate individuals into attempting to cross into the Spanish enclave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As detailed by European Commission spokesperson Guillaume Mercier, the EU witnessed foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) via various channels\u2014specifically Russian ones\u2014along with state media and diplomatic networks rapidly intensifying the migrant crisis across online platforms after the events in Ceuta. Mercier noted that documents regarding pro-Russian activity around this issue were also presented at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,55,1,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-politics","category-uncategorized","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31443,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31441\/revisions\/31443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}