Russia Takes Aim at Harris Campaign

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Russia Takes Aim at Harris Campaign

September 17, 2024 at 4:39 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 98 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/17/russia-takes-aim-at-harris-campaign/

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“Russia is now throwing all of its disinformation resources behind operations designed to undermine the Harris-Walz campaign,” Axios reports.

“Starting in late August, a well-known Russian influence group, called Storm-1516, created and spread two fake videos online to discredit the Harris-Walz campaign, according to the Microsoft report.”

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1. Here's a link to the Microsoft report:

Russian election interference efforts focus on the Harris-Walz campaign
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/09/17/russian-election-interference-efforts-focus-on-the-harris-walz-campaign/

Russian hacker groups (Storm-1516 & Storm-1679) created two videos which are the brunt of the story:

Storm-1516, identified by news reports as a Kremlin-aligned troll farm, produced and disseminated two inauthentic videos, each generating millions of views. One video depicted an attack by alleged Harris supporters on a supposed Trump rally attendee, while another used an on-screen actor to fabricate false claims about Harris’s involvement in a hit-and-run accident. This second video was laundered through a website masquerading as a local San Francisco media outlet — which was only created days beforehand.

Storm-1679, a newer group reportedly aligned with the Kremlin, pivoted its focus from producing content about the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to publishing false videos discrediting Vice President Harris. One of the videos, which was shared on X shortly after it was published to Telegram, depicted a fake New York City billboard advancing false claims about Harris’ policies. The X post received more than 100,000 views in the four hours after it was published on Telegram.