U.S. officials said in a statement sent by the FBI that they believe the video was 'manufactured and amplified' by Russian actors.
U.S. officials said in a statement sent by the FBI that they believe the video was"manufactured and amplified" by Russia n actors.The video had taken off on social media Thursday but was debunked within three hours by local election officials and law enforcement after members of the public reported it.U.S. officials said in a statement sent by the FBI that they believe the video was "manufactured and amplified" by Russia n actors.
Researchers who closely study Russian foreign influence campaigns had previously connected the video to a Russian disinformation network known as Storm-1516 or CopyCop. The network has previously shared numerous videos with false claims about Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz. The video used a Black actor with a foreign accent - a choice that may be intentional as a way to inflame existing divisions on American soil, according to Josephine Lukito, an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin who has researched Russian disinformation."It tends to amplify racism, right?" Lukito said. "There's already this kind of groundswell of discussion about immigrants that are illegally voting or immigration broadly.
There were multiple clues that immediately indicated the Bucks County video was fabricated. For example, under Pennsylvania law, election officials must wait until 7 a.m. ET on Election Day before they can begin to process ballots cast by mail and prepare them to be counted. "Immediately at that point, we began investigating the video and made our ultimate conclusion that it was, in fact, fabricated," she said in a phone interview Friday.
"To us, this is disinformation, aimed at scaring voters and dissuading them from using mail-in ballots or on-demand voting that uses the same mail-in ballot process," the Bucks County Republican Committee wrote in a statement. "We have seen dirty underhanded tactics this year, from the defacing of signs, letters threatening Trump supporters, and now this video trying to scare Bucks County voters.
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