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Act IV, The proof, made visible

How we documented the Storm-1516 operation.

No claim published on DisInfo Monitor is unsourced. Here is the chain of evidence, step by step.

Schematic example

This section illustrates the steps in a DisInfo Monitor investigation. The URL, HASH, TIME and LANG fields are presented pedagogically to describe the method, not as actual forensic evidence published by our sources.

Forensic annotation, yellow marker
Archived source, verified
01

Detection

In early April 2026, a fake site impersonating Euronews publishes a fabricated article accusing Péter Magyar of having insulted Donald Trump. On April 6, another site created the same day publishes that he allegedly cooked his children's puppy in a microwave.

URL: euronews-hu.fake/politics/2026/04/06/ TIME: 06/04 08:14 UTC HASH: c7f2a41... LANG: hu/en
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Cross-verification

The claim is checked against Euronews (the real one), Clemson Media Forensics Hub, gnida project and the DSA Transparency Database. The article is identified as a Storm-1516 fabrication.

Euronews: impersonation confirmed Clemson MFH: Storm-1516 attribution DSA SoR: no match gnida: known patterns
03

Signed publication

A report is written, reviewed by a human, dated, signed. The page stays live: each new proof or retraction is added and publicly displayed.

REPORT: N-061 PUB: 04/10 04:00 PM UTC SIGNATURE: DisInfo Monitor UPDATED: 3 major fabrications documented, election result added
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