Coordinated disinformation campaigns target Singapore over Indonesia markets and made-up meeting

Some of their posts included hashtags such as #operasipengaruh (Bahasa Indonesia for “influence operation”) and #foreigninfluence. On X, three of the network’s accounts posted versions of the same story 26 seconds apart, one after another.

For all that activity, the network’s posts drew a median of about 760 views each.

Elsewhere, another cluster of nine accounts shared the same text cards, one of which asked whether the two men had “betrayed the nation”. Three accounts posted this within two minutes, with captions also warning against provocation and “cognitive war”.

A separate group of three accounts claimed the pair had received Singapore dollars to “cause riots in Indonesia”. Their shared caption, however, also acknowledged that the claim needed evidence and should not be treated as fact.