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Two weeks ago Jackinscotland, an apparent Single-Purpose Account, made unilateral changes to Sputnik (news agency), which removed any mention of its Russian government affiliation from the intro. That same day, a single-purpose IP 81.134.15.12 attempted to discredit one of Sputnik's critics, CEPA, by adding cherry-picked U.S. military contractor donors to its page, even though these donors are not in any way distinguished from the organization's many other donors. 2 hours later, Jackinscotland repeated 81.134.15.12's behavior, and then engaged in an edit war with another user to keep pushing this same UNDUE content.

On June 7, I reverted Jackinscotland's undiscussed changes and restored info on Russian government ties in Sputnik's lede. Lo and behold, soon another single-purpose IP 81.145.207.242 restored Jackinscotland's text word for word, and again, removed any hint of ties to the Russian governement from the intro. This same IP also maliciously tagged a reference to one of Sputnik's critics - CEPA - likely to cast further doubt on the content's validity and prepare it for eventual deletion. So to sum it up, 81.145.207.242 removes Sputnik's Russian government affiliation from the lede, much like Jackinscotland and 81.134.15.12, and targets content related to Sputnik's critic CEPA, much like Jackinscotland and 81.134.15.12.

Lastly, parallel to these events, another apparent Single-Purpose Account, Blabber2016, repeated the behavior of aforementioned users by yet again removing any mention of Sputnik's Russian government affiliation from the lede, and trying to water down Sputnik's ties to government enterprises by introducing unjustified weasel words: "Sputnik News is a successor to" was changed into "Sputnik News is generally considered to be a successor". Blabber2016 then went on to re-introduce Jackinscotland's cherry-picked donor list for CEPA. So again, a common theme emerges: 1. removing Sputnik's Russian government affiliation from the lede and 2. focusing on Sputnik's critic CEPA.

There's a possibility that these disruptive accounts are operated by Trolls from Olgino, but they could also be independent actors. Either way, given the short timeframe in which these agenda-pushing accounts/IPs all popped up, I think it needs to be checked out. Damianmx (talk) 21:45, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

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 * The two accounts are .--Bbb23 (talk) 14:54, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Despite the CU evidence coming up only as "possible", I would be inclined on behavioural evidence to block as a likely sock of, except that the user reporting this case —  — has himself been blocked as a CU-confirmed sock of , and was engaged in the same dispute he accused others of socking in.  So I'm going to let this one go for now.  Neither accused account has posted anything at all, anywhere, for about a month now.  If and when some fresh evidence arises, and someone not in the "pot calling the kettle black" category decides to start a new SPI case, I would be happy to see a new investigation.  As for the IP addresses, they have also not been seen for the past month, so I'm just going to consider the whole thing stale for now.   without taking any action.  —  Rich wales (no relation to Jimbo) 22:44, 9 July 2016 (UTC)