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All The Records Quincy Wilson Has Broken—As Youngest American Olympic Track And Field Star Will Run In 4x400 RelayGroups linked to the Iranian government are engaged in efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential elections through large-scale online disinformation campaigns and hacking attempts targeting high-level officials, Microsoft researchers said in a report published Friday.
Examples of such sites highlighted by the report include one called the “Nio Thinker” which targets liberals by attacking Trump and another aimed at conservatives called “Savannah Time” which leans into LGBTQ+ issues, “particularly gender re-assignment.” Microsoft researchers say they found evidence of these sites “using AI-enabled services to plagiarize at least some of their content from US publications,” and other AI tools to boost their reach on search engines.
Another Iran-linked group called Sefid Flood “began staging” election interference operations in March and it specializes in impersonating social and political activist groups to “sow doubt about election integrity” and inciting violence against political figures, among other things.We’re launching text message alerts so you'll always know the biggest stories shaping the day’s headlines.
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