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Microsoft says Russia’s election interference efforts have pivoted to Harris and Walz
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Microsoft says Russia’s election interference efforts have pivoted to Harris and Walz

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Microsoft says Russia’s election interference efforts have pivoted to Harris and Walz

Navy musicians carry out in Moscow’s Crimson Sq. on Sept. 1, 2024. Researchers at Microsoft say Russia is pivoting its on-line affect operations to deal with Vice President Kamala Harris and her working mate, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, within the ultimate stretch of the election.

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Russia is utilizing faux movies and phony social media accounts to focus on Vice President Kamala Harris because the U.S. presidential election attracts nearer, based on a brand new report from Microsoft.

The Kremlin’s affect operations “initially struggled to pivot operations aimed at the Democratic campaign following President Biden’s departure from the US 2024 presidential race” in July, researchers at Microsoft’s Menace Evaluation Heart wrote. However beginning in August, affect campaigns the corporate has been monitoring started to churn out content material about Harris and her working mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks alongside Ukrainian officials at the Department of Justice in 2022 in Washington, D.C.

“The shift to focusing on the Harris-Walz campaign reflects a strategic move by Russian actors aimed at exploiting any perceived vulnerabilities in the new candidates,” Clint Watts, the final supervisor of the Menace Evaluation Heart, wrote in a weblog submit accompanying the report.

Russian navy recruits perform with the Russian flag in St. Petersburg, Russia, on June 4 during a ceremony marking the departure of recruits to join the army.

In latest weeks, the U.S. authorities has stepped up its efforts to name out and disrupt Russian affect operations focusing on American voters that intelligence officers say are aimed toward serving to former President Donald Trump regain the White Home.

This photo shows political commentator and YouTuber Benny Johnson on the left side of the photo while he speaks with Eric Trump, a son of former President Donald Trump, during the 2024 Republican National Convention. Johnson is wearing a black T-shirt and is holding a microphone. Eric Trump, standing on the right side of the photo, is also holding a microphone and is wearing a white shirt and gray suit jacket.

The Microsoft report recognized plenty of latest Russia-linked campaigns which have shifted focus to Harris. That included a baseless declare accusing Harris of being concerned in a hit-and-run in 2011 that was unfold by way of a web site claiming to be an area San Francisco TV station. The article was accompanied by a video wherein a lady, whom Microsoft recognized as an actor, claimed to be the sufferer of the crash. There’s no proof any such incident occurred, and the purported TV station doesn’t exist.

Microsoft mentioned the video and its laundering by way of a sham information web site was in line with the techniques of an affect operation it has tracked in earlier experiences. Researchers on the misinformation-tracking firm NewsGuard have linked that operation to a former deputy sheriff from Florida who now lives in Moscow.

One other inauthentic video Microsoft attributed to the identical operation appeared to depict “an attack by alleged Harris supporters on what the video’s amplifiers claim is a Trump rally attendee.” It racked up tens of millions of views.

Microsoft attributed different movies pushing conspiracy theories and falsehoods about Harris’s insurance policies to a separate Russian affect operation that beforehand aimed to unfold worry across the Paris Olympics.

One video, purporting to point out a faux billboard in Instances Sq. with false claims about Harris, was posted on a Telegram channel that claimed the telephone message was commissioned by Trump supporters “to troll the Democrats.” It was considered greater than 100,000 occasions on the social media web site X, previously Twitter, inside 4 hours of being posted on Telegram, Microsoft mentioned.

The Meta logo at a trade fair in France earlier this year. The social media firm says it has disrupted more accounts tied to Iranian hackers who are targeting the U.S. presidential election.

A 3rd affect marketing campaign famous within the report “continues to operate covert social media channels that target US audiences.” It amplifies supplies obtained by Russian-linked hackers and posts faux investigations, alongside assaults on Harris and posts in regards to the U.S. southern border.

A photo illustration of the TikTok logo next to U.S. and China flags. Researchers have uncovered more accounts tied to a Chinese influence operation known as

The operations will possible ramp up their assaults on the Harris-Walz marketing campaign within the run-up to Election Day, Microsoft mentioned.

Iran and China are additionally in search of to sway U.S. voters, Microsoft mentioned, echoing assessments by federal intelligence officers and researchers at different firms.

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