Last week, the American artificial intelligence company Anthropic published its periodic report on monitoring and combating the misuse of its models, documenting cases in which its “Cloud” model was used to build a national surveillance system in Mali, and to produce fake political content related to Central Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kenya, in addition to a campaign related to the war in Sudan .
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The company said its investigations included activities it monitored and disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026, but stressed that the influence of some campaigns remained limited and did not prove to reach a real audience.
The one subscriber, whom the company believed to be an independent consultant in Bamako working for Mali’s National Security Agency, used “Cloud” as an engineering tool to build a surveillance platform called “Lakana 360,” designed to monitor data from approximately 25 million SIM cards belonging to the country’s three telecom operators.
The report stated that the system was designed to circumvent the requirement for a court order to disclose certain surveillance data. It can generate intelligence profiles on specific numbers, identify voices via chips, monitor users of encryption and VPNs, create geo-monitoring lists, and link data to biometric civil registry records. Because the platform operates locally using local models, the suspension of the Cloud account disrupted design and development activities but did not halt the locally deployed product, according to the company.
Central Africa: A local radio station with Russian backing
In Bangui, the report documented an operation run by a Russian-speaking individual who produced daily content for Radio Lingo Songo in coordination with Russia Today, Sputnik Afrique, TASS, and The Russian House. The operator instructed the model to include points supporting the government and Russia, and opposing France and the opposition, and to strip the texts of machine-writing characteristics so they would not appear to be generated by artificial intelligence .
The model was also used in personnel management, preparing employment contracts and job descriptions, evaluating articles, tracking opposition figures, preparing talking points for officials, and forging government documents. Anthropic ranked the operation at level four of its influence operations scale due to the daily dissemination and amplification of content via Telegram channels and local media.
The documented an operation run by a Russian-speaking individual who produced daily content for Radio Lingo Songo to support the government in the Central African Republic and Russia, and to oppose France and the opposition.
The report documented an operation run by a Russian-speaking individual who produced daily content for Radio Lingo Songo to support the government in Central Africa and Russia, and to oppose France and the opposition (social media).
Democratic Republic of Congo: 318 articles
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the country was one of the targets of a commercial network that included some 70 fake news websites and accounts on the X platform. The network used Cloud to create new content and rewrite real news stories with different political leanings, signing them with the names of fictitious journalists.
Anthropic said that 318 articles focused on the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly supporting its government's position on mineral issues and tensions with Rwanda , but it found no evidence of government direction of the operation.
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