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Video Showing “Haitian Immigrants” Illegally Voting Was Faked By Russian Disinformation Unit, US Says

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02.11.2024

Customers in a Springfield, Ohio Haitian restaurant.Jessie Wardarski/AP

A video purporting to show recently arrived Haitian immigrants illegally voting in Georgia for Kamala Harris was produced by a Russian government-backed disinformation unit, according to US authorities. Three agencies—the FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence—said in a joint news release Friday that the video, which circulated widely on Twitter/X, was manufactured by “Russian influence actors.” The same group, they wrote, was also behind “a video falsely accusing an individual associated with the Democratic presidential ticket of taking a bribe from a U.S. entertainer.”

US intelligence warns of further foreign attacks to “undermine trust in the integrity of the election and divide Americans.”

Though the agencies didn’t specifically name a particular source for the videos, disinformation experts, including Darren Linvill of Clemson University, pointed out that the voting video strongly resembles earlier ones........

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