Yeah, there's some weird signal crossing in these quotes.
This is the propaganda that's just a straight lie:
A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month's riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on uncontrolled immigration and portray authorities as having lost control of the situation, according to an internal European Union (EU) assessment seen by Reuters.
A separate internal assessment by the French Foreign Ministry ... found that social media accounts linked to Israel and the US MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement were also spreading "hostile narratives" about the riots, linking them to radical Islamism and migration.
An EU analysis found that a covert Russian network known as "Operation Overload" was spreading videos falsely posing as Western media content, targeting French audiences. Some of them falsely claimed that migrants were raping protesters or that terrorist attacks were imminent.
This assessment here is factual (French leadership is weak and increasingly authoritarian, this is the conclusion that the French people are drawing), but it is presented as part of the propaganda:
The EU analysis, covering the period from October 7 to 21, found that Russia sought to "portray the French leadership as weak and increasingly authoritarian."
However, this part here may make sense of that, if this is a different propaganda stream that is aimed at making other allies view the weakening position of the French government as tied to the support for Ukraine:
The EU report states that "Operation Overload", active since September 2023, is directed against Western "public figures, institutions and media", with the aim of "discrediting these actors and their support for Ukraine, while promoting content aligned with Russian interests".
The network's activities "also aimed to undermine European support for Ukraine by claiming that European governments were prioritizing Ukraine over domestic problems," the report said.
So it is exploiting 2 different threads of propaganda, one stoking fear on what the riots include and the need to quell them with violence and curb immigration, and the other on the position of the French government for risky partner in war as a consequence of their real actions.
You're not supposed to see both propaganda axes, only one of them is aimed at you, and this EU report is putting to light the fact that both threads come from the same sources.