American intelligence: This is how the Russians are trying to influence the election through fake videos

2024-11-01 20:40:32Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

American intelligence: This is how the Russians are trying to influence the

US intelligence agencies have said a viral video of a Haitian man claiming to have voted "multiple times" is the work of "Russian influence actors".

"This judgment is based on information available to the intelligence community and the prior activities of other Russian influence actors," the agencies said in a joint statement.

The 20-second video shows two men in a car claiming to be from Haiti, with one saying they had obtained US citizenship within six months of arriving and voted for Kamala Harris in Gwinnett and Fulton counties, Georgia.

A man shows several driver's licenses to the camera (apparently as proof of identity). BBC Verify took screenshots of their screens and enhanced them in an attempt to verify the details on them.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the video is "clearly fake" and the product of Russian fraudsters "wanting to create disruption and chaos in the run-up to the election."

The intelligence community expects Russia, in the days before and after the election, to "create and release additional media content aimed at undermining confidence in the integrity of the election."

The video is similar in style and distribution to other videos created by Storm-1516, also known as CopyCop, a notorious Russian disinformation network that has created several fake videos this election, according to Darren Linvill, co-director of Media. Forensics Center at Clemson University, which researched the group.


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