Russia was behind a video falsely claiming Haitian immigrants had voted illegally in Georgia with fake IDs in Moscow's ongoing bid to undercut Americans’ confidence in the 2024 election results, U.S. intelligence and cybersecurity officials said Friday.
Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), told MSNBC that a forensic analysis clearly showed Russia was behind the video, the second one in a week from Moscow designed to sow division in the United States before next week’s election.
“We can definitively report that it is Russian produced and specifically designed to go viral, to undermine American confidence in the security and integrity of our elections,” Easterly said when asked about the video.
It was the second piece of sophisticated Russian disinformation in a week to gain traction online that falsely asserted voter fraud in a key swing state. Easterly said she expected more attempts by Russia and foreign adversaries to spread false information before and after Election Day.
“This is all about spewing disinformation designed to undermine trust in our elections, and to sow partisan discord, and we cannot allow our foreign adversaries to have a vote in our democracy,” Easterly said.
The first video falsely claimed to show a person ripping up filled-in ballots in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. U.S. intelligence officials said the video was Russian-made and designed to shake public faith in the democratic process.
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