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    Russian disinformation campaign sets sights on US midterms

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    1. Wagamaga on

      A Russian disinformation operation has turned its attention to the US midterm elections, unleashing a series of deepfake videos that depict celebrities attacking Democrats, researchers said, with more expected to come.

      The videos started spreading September 10, 2026 across social media with hashtags such as “#AllDemocratsAreCriminals,” and showed Hollywood actors chastising the Democratic Party in self-recorded statements branded with CNN’s logo.

      “Today in America, there isn’t a single child who isn’t under threat from Democrats,” a voice-cloned version of “How I Met Your Mother” star Alyson Hannigan is shown saying in one.

      Another portrays Emma Caulfield saying Democrats “drink our blood.” In a third, Sarah Jessica Parker appears to call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Democrats “Nazis.”

      The clips were created using footage stolen from elsewhere on the internet. One fake of Julia Roberts layered fabricated audio over a 2023 Gucci campaign (archived here). Others were built on top of recordings uploaded to Cameo, a service that lets celebrities sell personalized videos to fans (archived here, here and here).

    2. YuriDiculousDawg on

      This was news a decade ago, back when Prigozhin was still operating online troll farms instead of mercenaries in Ukraine, before AI got good enough for every anti-western state and their mom to handle running bot farms

    6. Big_Issue8640 on

      It’s going to be tuff considering the vast majority of Americans think presidents Epstein and MAGA are trash.

    8. CatalyticDragon on

      MAGA cannot get their heads around the fact the Russia wants to weaken the US with Russia supporting Trump/GOP. They would rather think Russia is now the “good guys” who shares their values and only wants to see them succeed.

    9. Dash_Rendar425 on

      What more could they possibly do? He’s already staged a coup, cheated in an election, and ruined the economy.

    11. Expensive_Put_3338 on

      Lol they don’t even have to try with how this administration have been making no the onion useless

    12. According_Gift_7095 on

      They’ve been helping Trump since the golden escalator. He needs Russia more than ever since all his policies are Russia and China first and Americans are pissed…..even the asshats who looked past child rape yet can’t see past high diesel prices

    14. linkfx2008 on

      I think its time to fight fire with fire. We need to show Putin getting porked in the butt using AI. Make sure its graphic as hell. Just saying if they want to distablize our country we go back twice as hard.

    15. knudipper on

      Check out “The Wizard of the Kremlin “.
      How do you break a wire? Keep twisting each end until it snaps.
      Disinformation to both side’s leveraging fear and outrage.
      You love squirrels? The other side is putting helpless furry baby squirrels in blenders for taco meat!!!!
      The other side is proposing legislation to deport model train enthusiasts.
      So much of the stuff that supports what a person genuinely believes in is disinformation to break us.
      Legitimate problems further inflamed to the point we break.

    16. EducationalDust7858 on

      Do they really need to invest a lot of energy for disinformation campaigns in the US when loads of Americans are dumb as a brick already?

    17. Tyrude on

      At what point is X just bots and terrible people talking to each other? What is it they hope to get from it at that point?

      I don’t know a single person who uses that platform anymore, and that includes Democrats and Republicans.

    20. GroundbreakingPage41 on

      It’s telling that they want the party in power to win and cons are too willfully ignorant to notice.

    22. IAMERROR1234 on

      It’s like they don’t have anything better to do while they send all of their men to die in Ukraine..

    24. p00pSupr3me on

      Republican voters have been hooked since 2016. Pedophiles and traitors, just like their traitor, pedophile Donald J Trump.

    25. ServoSkull20 on

      Given how brick shit thick the yanks are, I don’t think they’re going to have to make much effort with this. Just say some stuff about how Jesus would vote Republican, and you’re good.

    26. Successful_Note_5871 on

      You can’t propagandize money magically appearing in people’s bank accounts.

      Dumbasses wasting their time and money. Did you see Netanyahu trying to shame Mamdani? Is that the best he’s got?

    30. SmarmySmurf on

      Water is wet. Vote blue **no matter who**, don’t fall for the infighting purity test BS people. Gavin is not a trans ally, many of them are not allys on Palestine, but they’re better than *any* republican, and crying “nazi” **will not** help trans people or Palestine or anyone else except Russia and the GOP. We don’t have to like it, but its ***reality***.

    33. trigger1154 on

      The disinformation campaign has already been running. Considering the Republican party is compromised by Russia and China, basically any ads ran by Republicans can be considered disinformation campaign.

    35. Madhatter25224 on

      What else is new? Russia has been flooding our online discourse with bot driven disinformation for well over a decade.

    36. Antknee2099 on

      So quickly we all forget the role of Russian interference in the 2016 election. All of the time spent looking at just how many people fell for the Russian push that had a hand in getting Trump elected in the first place. The FBI couldn’t pin it on Trump at the time, but were able to say it had an effect. So we’re set to see that happen again.

    41. CiDevant on

      Trump is the best thing that’s ever happened for the Enemies of Western Democracy.

      And it’s not even close.