France has said it has been the target of a Russian online destabilisation campaign that used bots to whip up controversy and confusion about spray-painted Stars of David that appeared on Paris streets. French officials said the online campaign also fed alarm about surging antisemitism in France during the Israel-Hamas conflict. Advertisement The 250 or so quickly erased blue stars are now the subject of French police investigations seeking to determine whether the marks were antisemitic, as Paris’ police chief and others initially suspected, and if they were organised from outside France. The stars’ stencilling on walls in Paris and...