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Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections (arstechnica.com)

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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 30 points 6 months ago

One of them won the GOP nomination.

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Ahem, presumptive nominee

Although ig he did win twice before

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

The whole gop

[-] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 6 months ago

I guess it's something of a tradition by now.

[-] Billy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 months ago

"To a lesser extent, China and Iran also peddle disinfo in hopes of influencing voters."

"As an example, social media posts by sock puppet agents of the Chinese Communist Party promoted former President Donald Trump and criticized Biden."

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No shit, I just blocked one like 15 minutes ago, it's even worse on other sites like reddit.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Kremlin-backed actors have stepped up efforts to interfere with the US presidential election by planting disinformation and false narratives on social media and fake news sites, analysts with Microsoft reported Wednesday.

The analysts have identified several unique influence-peddling groups affiliated with the Russian government seeking to influence the election outcome, with the objective in large part to reduce US support of Ukraine and sow domestic infighting.

Over the past 45 days, the groups have seeded a growing number of social media posts and fake news articles that attempt to foment opposition to US support of Ukraine and stoke divisions over hot-button issues such as election fraud.

In doing so, Kremlin-backed actors attempt to influence American policy regarding the war in Ukraine, reduce social and political support to NATO, and ensnare the United States in domestic infighting to distract from the world stage.

Content, published in English, Russian, French, Arabic, and Finnish, frequently originates through disinformation seeded by a purported whistleblower or citizen journalist over a purpose-built video channel and then picked up by a network of Storm-1516-controlled websites posing as independent news sources.

One attempts to revive a campaign perpetuated by NABU Leaks, a website that published content alleging then-Vice President Joe Biden colluded with former Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko, according to Reuters.

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