Pro-Kremlin X accounts push fake Fox News articles ahead of debate

essentialsaltes said:

Pro-Kremlin X accounts push fake Fox News articles ahead of debate​

Efforts to manipulate social media discussion around the debate underscore warnings from experts regarding the threat that disinformation continues to pose.

The fake articles, first reported on X by the account @antibot4navalny, an anonymous group of analysts tracking Russia-related influence operations, directed people to a fake version of Fox News’ website. That website appears to be part of a known Russian disinformation campaign that has mimicked legitimate news websites from Le Monde in France to The Washington Post. E.U. researchers dubbed it the doppelgänger network in 2022.

In March, Alethea, a company that researches online risks including disinformation, identified 81 websites and more than 5,000 X accounts as part of the campaign.

Laundering propaganda through Kremlin-created or approved news outlets is a tried and true tactic, but this campaign has taken on a modern twist. It uses a fake website that credibly imitates a legitimate news outlet, sharing links through a network of seemingly automated accounts in a way that is not easily detected by platforms and researchers.

The fake website looks almost identical to Fox News’ real website, and the fake article uses the name of a real Fox News reporter.

Another article shared by accounts in the network with the headline “Mission: Almost Impossible” included an argument that President Joe Biden would need only to remain on his feet to win the debate and that Democrats were plotting to steal the election. It also included dehumanizing language about immigrants, in furtherance of the conspiracy theory of widespread illegal voting by immigrants.

[Wait a minute, are we sure it's fake?]

“The story is fake,” a Fox News spokesperson confirmed in an email.

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Merrill said:

and the CCP has used bot and fake accounts to push narratives attacking Trump and the GOP

newsflash: foreign governments do try to influence our citizens through social media

remember "Stop Asian Hate"? That was a CCP astroturf operation designed to

1. Pit Americans against each other
2. Distract people away from the CCP's handling of COVID-19

But your initial post is interesting, because it references a company I've never heard of Alethea Corp

doing a little research, I see that they are funded from an investment from Google and a few venture capital firms operating overseas

but it goes a lot deeper than that: doing a little more research, I find out that their CEO, Lisa Kaplan worked at the National Democratic Institute (NDI) an outfit funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation

the Strategic Operations manager Asa Berolzheimer worked for several Democratic politician campaigns, including Angus King and Sara Gideon.

Alethea seems to be this outfit connected to the DNC and funded by Soros and some tech oligarchs

I don't see evidence of them "looking into" anything save for Russian interference on behalf of GOP politicians in the US

Alethea combats disinformation by spreading disinformation

you can believe what you want, but I wouldn't take anything this company puts forward seriously

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Pommer said:

Both China & Russia would rather deal with Trump, this “CCP attacking Trump & GOP” sounds fishy.

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Merrill said:

Russia would rather deal with Trump

China would rather deal with Biden & Harris

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Pommer said:

Shall we pony up our sources?
You go first since you first asserted that CCP desires Biden.

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Merrill said:

We can start with the below article

and remember that the CCP worked with Democrats on the propaganda campaign launched in early 2020 to deflect blame from that regime for COVID-19, convince the public that a lab leak was impossible, and that limiting travel to and from China was basically racist (Biden remarked on Twitter "We are in the midst of a crisis with the coronavirus. We need to lead the way with science — not Donald Trump’s record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.")

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/16/china/china-us-relations-xi-biden-meeting-analysis-intl-hnk/index.html

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Pommer said:

Xi isn’t bothered by Biden’s opinion of him (Xi), the best dictators never are.
So, okay you done a link, now it’s my turn, [Link : China Lurves Trump]

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