Propaganda Forensics: Recovering the Generation Pipeline of an AI-Driven Influence Campaign

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arXiv:2608.15746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a forensic analysis of the generation pipeline behind a recent AI-driven influence campaign. We introduce PROPAGIA, a corpus of 2,646 propagandist French articles from the Storm-1516/CopyCop campaign disclosed by VIGINUM and INSIKT GROUP in 2025. For comparison, we rely on SIPA, a corpus of human-written French mainstream press from the same period. Using topic modeling, vagueness and sentiment analysis, we first isolate persuasion techn