EDINBURGH, June 13 -- France's state disinformation watchdog has concluded that an Israeli company ran coordinated networks of fake social media accounts against politicians who criticized Israel's war in Gaza, and the list of targets it published reaches from Scotland's first minister to the mayor of New York, a single private firm reportedly attempting to bend three democracies at once.

The agency, Viginum, named the company as BlackCore and announced its findings on Friday, its chief executive Marc-Antoine Brillant saying the operation extended to digital interference in Angola, Togo, the elections in Scotland and the 2025 municipal election in New York, Truthout reported. BlackCore had described itself, before it erased its online pr...