Most people outside France still have no idea what BlackCore is. They do not know that in March 2026 a company no one had ever heard of walked into French municipal elections, ran a professional smear operation against left?wing, pro?Palestinian candidates, then tried to erase its own existence as soon as investigators got close.

They do not know that BlackCore is not a troll farm or a couple of rogue consultants, but the marketing name on an industrial influence machine built out of Israeli military intelligence alumni, a Tel Aviv law office, UK shell companies, a London server and AI tools designed to manufacture social media personas and flood elections with synthetic narratives. They also do not know that the same ecosystem, on its defensive side, sells disinformation detection to Western governments and now has a former CIA director in the boardroom.

The following story is about BlackCore's (alleged) transnational influence operations using avatar networks and disinformation, which extend beyond France to places like New York, Scotland, Angola, Togo, and likely many, many countries by the time this story is properly fleshed out. But it begins with what happened in France. It follows the trail through French state reporting, a joint inquiry by Haaretz and Libération that broke open new details, corporate records in Israel and the UK, US securities filings and the digital debris that BlackCore and its partners failed to fully clean up. It shows how a smear campaign aimed at three municipal candidates now points to a global Israeli information warfare ecosystem that touches many nations and cities around the world, the US State Department and the office of Benjamin Netanyahu.