Kinshasa70 fake news sites published 318 articles on Congo’s war.
Fact-checkers in Congo say they missed the network until Anthropic’s September report.
Coordinated accounts on X amplified the sites, mimicking real outlets and rewriting articles for different audiences.
Anthropic traced the network to LKM Company, a French advertising agency, and found no evidence of government involvement.
Anthropic’s findings leave open which clients LKM Company served.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices leans critical
- traces the DRC-Rwanda disinformation to a network of about 70 AI-run fake news sites that mimicked legitimate outlets, framed as a Big Tech and authoritarianism spotlight
Sources: Global Voices