Simply days earlier than the U.S. presidential election, intelligence companies in Washington are warning of targetted disinformation from Russia. The companies blamed Russia for a video that “falsely depicted people claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in a number of counties in Georgia.”….CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM THE SOURCE
One other fabricated video falsely accused “a person related to the Democratic presidential ticket of taking a bribe from a U.S. entertainer.”
The companies didn’t elaborate of their assertion. However U.S. media stated the video that started circulating late this week prompt Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband acquired a $500,000-bribe from the performer Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Within the joint assertion, the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company blamed “Russian affect actors” for the movies.
These cases had been a part of a “broader effort” by Moscow “to boost unfounded questions concerning the integrity of the U.S. election and stoke divisions amongst Individuals,” the companies stated.
Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, who’s answerable for elections within the swing state, stated the video about Georgia “is fake and is an instance of targetted disinformation we’ve seen on this and different elections.
It’s probably overseas interference making an attempt to sow discord and chaos on the eve of the 2024 presidential election.”
Raffensperger referred to as on X proprietor Elon Musk and the leaders of different social media platforms to take away the video.
The clip was initially posted by an nameless account that had beforehand been reported to have unfold disinformation of suspected Russian origin.
The video has since been deleted.