Lead review
Watch score 50/100 · text cluster · 4 accounts · 4 posts
View in 3D: where it comes from and what it is linked to
First seen Sat 14 Nov 05:37 UTC, last Sat 14 Nov 05:37 UTC. Linked: l.sudouest.fr 4
Some evidence, not enough to call it inauthentic.
This is a lead for a human reviewer, not an accusation. Signals are measured; thresholds are starting values evaluated on the metrics page.
Account profiles fetched: 100%.
Nemotron investigation
Organic confidence high · recommended: no action
Four Sud Ouest accounts post near-identical promotional text for a daily cartoon by cartoonist Urbs, each linking to sudouest.fr.
Narrative: The cluster promotes a daily current-affairs cartoon feature by Sud Ouest cartoonist Urbs. Each of the four accounts repeats the same French sentence, "Retrouvez chaque jour l’actualité croquée par notre dessinateur Urbs", followed by a different shortened sudouest.fr link.
Strongest innocent explanation considered: Sud Ouest is a French regional newspaper. A1 is its official national account; A2, A3, and A4 are its Bordeaux, Charente-Maritime, and Dordogne regional accounts respectively, as stated in their bios. A single publisher pushing the same promotion across its own disclosed regional accounts within one minute is ordinary social-media behavior.
- All four accounts self-identify as Sud Ouest in their bios (A1, A2, A3, A4).
- Accounts are aged (610-723 days), have avatars, bios, and followers (223-7,134).
- No inauthenticity indicators: not new accounts, not suspended/deleted, no template bios, not on propaganda lists, no declared automation required for newsroom accounts.
- S:copy_paste=100% and S:synchrony=100% reflect one publisher coordinating its own accounts, not hidden inauthentic coordination.
- Coordination alone is not proof of inauthenticity; here the coordination is transparent and disclosed.
Sources
| Domain | Trust | Why |
|---|---|---|
| sudouest.fr | unknown | Domain registered 2009-01-23 (age_days: 6503), registrar Infomaniak Network SA. Not on VIGINUM/CheckFirst propaganda lists. Links point to the publisher's own website promoting its own cartoonist; no evidence the page hides its content origin. |
Evidence-backed claims
- Four accounts posted near-identical text within one minute. P1P2P3P4S:synchronyS:copy_paste
- A1 is the official Sud Ouest journal account. A1
- A2-A4 are Sud Ouest regional accounts for Bordeaux, Charente-Maritime, and Dordogne. A2A3A4
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b, prompt v2, Sat 06:02 UTC, 3 model calls, 37.0 s · 75% of its references checked against the evidence. Evidence ids: P post, A account, I image, V video, W web page, Q news search, N news article, S detector signal.
Activity per minute
1 minutes, peak 4 posts in one minute.
Signals
| Category | Signal | Value | Threshold | Fired | What it means here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| coordination | copy_paste | 100% | ≥ 50% | yes | 100% of posts repeat near-identical text from another account. |
| coordination | synchrony | 100% | ≥ 50% | yes | 100% of the activity happened within a single minute. |
| coordination | repetition | 1.0 | ≥ 2.0 | no | Each account posted this 1.0 times on average. |
| coordination | cross_cluster | 0% | ≥ 50% | no | 0% of the accounts also appear in at least two other flagged clusters (24 h). |
| account | removed_accounts | 0% | ≥ 20% | no | 0% of the accounts are no longer served by Bluesky (suspended or deleted). |
| account | new_accounts | 0% | ≥ 50% | no | 0% of the accounts were created in the last 30 days. |
| account | creation_burst | 50% | ≥ 40% | yes | 50% of the accounts were created within the same 72 hours. |
| account | low_reach | 0% | ≥ 60% | no | 0% of the accounts have fewer than 10 followers. |
| account | empty_profiles | 0% | ≥ 50% | no | 0% of the accounts have no profile picture or no bio. |
| account | template_bios | 0% | ≥ 30% | no | 0% of the accounts have a bio that near-duplicates another account's bio. |
| provenance | known_accounts | 0 | ≥ 1 | no | 0 account(s) are on IFTAS's public list of suspected Portal Kombat accounts. |
| provenance | listed_servers | 0% | ≥ 30% | no | 0% of the accounts are bridged from Mastodon servers on IFTAS's list. |
| provenance | known_domains | 0 | ≥ 1 | no | Links to 0 domain(s) on VIGINUM/CheckFirst propaganda lists. |
| provenance | pravda_sources | 0 | ≥ 1 | no | Links to 0 Telegram channel(s) that Pravda sites republish (a lead, not proof). |
| disclosure | declared_automation | 0% | ≥ 50% | no | 0% of the accounts say in their profile that they are bots or automated feeds. |
Accounts (4)
Median account age: 723 days. Names are shown only for accounts on IFTAS's public list or already removed by Bluesky; the team sees all.
| Account | Age (days) | Followers | Follows | Posts here | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| account 1 | 725 | 7133 | 100 | 1 | active |
| account 2 | 723 | 619 | 41 | 1 | active |
| account 3 | 612 | 265 | 31 | 1 | active |
| account 4 | 612 | 224 | 33 | 1 | active |
Clusters sharing accounts with this one (24 h)
| Tier | Kind | Shared message or link | Shared accounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watch | text | « Au secours, je suis coincé ! » : pour un exercice, les pompiers emploient les grands moyens après | 4 |
| Watch | text | Les pompiers face aux catastrophes climatiques : « Le Sud-Ouest est une terre propice aux tornades » | 4 |
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