Saturday, November 02, 2024

Today in Russian Disinformation: Fake Haitian Voting Video

U.S. officials have determined Russia was behind a video that circulated online in recent days and that Georgia state election officials have labeled as disinformation. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the video, which purports to show Haitians claiming that they illegally voted for Kamala Harris, is fake and likely the work of a Russian troll farm.

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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the video, which purports to show Haitians claiming that they illegally voted for Kamala Harris, is fake and likely the work of a Russian troll farm.

In the video posted to social media on Thursday, a man claims that he and others featured in the footage are from Haiti, arrived in the United States six months ago, obtained U.S. citizenship within that time, and are voting for Kamala Harris in multiple Georgia counties.
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The video is "targeted disinformation," Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said, as he specifically called on Elon Musk, the billionaire Donald Trump supporter, to take down the video. Raffensperger said his office is working with federal officials to investigate the video, which had more than half a million views on Musk's social media platform X as of Thursday night.

In a press release, Raffensperger said that "we ask Elon Musk and the leadership of other social media platforms to take this down," adding, "This is obviously fake and part of a disinformation effort. Likely it is a production of Russian troll farms."

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Good luck with getting Musk to do anything that doesn't help his Russian asset, Trump. Ain't gonna happen.

#1 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-11-01 04:58 PM

Russian Disinformation: Fake Haitian Voting Video

They don't look Russian ...

#2 | Posted by censored at 2024-11-01 05:15 PM


So...

Russia seems to be continuing its disinformation campaign to divide us after what it did during the hurricanes?

Russia amplified hurricane disinformation to drive Americans apart, researchers find (October 24, 2024)
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... Russia has helped amplify and spread false and misleading internet claims about recent hurricanes in the United States and the federal government's response, part of a wider effort by the Kremlin to manipulate America's political discourse before the presidential election, new research shows.

The content, spread by Russian state media and networks of social media accounts and websites, criticizes the federal response to Hurricanes Helene and Milton, exploiting legitimate concerns about the recovery effort in an attempt to paint American leaders as incompetent and corrupt, according to research from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. The London-based organization tracks disinformation and online extremism.

In some cases, the claims about the storms include fake images created using artificial intelligence, such as a photo depicting scenes of devastating flooding at Disney World that never happened, researchers say.

The approach is consistent with the Kremlin's long-standing practice of identifying legitimate debates and contentious issues in the U.S. and then exploiting them. Previous disinformation campaigns have harnessed debates about immigration, racism, crime and the economy in an effort to portray the U.S. as corrupt, violent and unjust. ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-02 07:56 PM

Kamala Harris on SNL tonight

#4 | Posted by Hans at 2024-11-02 08:36 PM

Orc-lover Steven Seagal has been eating Haitians.

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#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-11-02 08:58 PM

This phony tape will be presented in court next Wednesday morning by the Trump legal team as evidence of tampering in the election after Der Dotards loss at the polls. Mark my words ...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2024-11-02 11:24 PM

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

Must be fake news. Most of them don't have enough meat on their bones to create that...

#7 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-11-03 10:30 AM

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