The FBI and President Biden’s intelligence director Avril Haines mentioned Friday that the Kremlin is trying to undermine confidence within the election by amplifying Republican issues about doable fraud.
“The [intelligence community] assesses that Russian affect actors manufactured a current video that falsely depicted people claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in a number of counties in Georgia,” the FBI, Haines’ workplace and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company mentioned in a press release.
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“This judgment relies on info obtainable to the IC and prior actions of different Russian affect actors, together with movies and different disinformation actions. The Georgia Secretary of State has already refuted the video’s claims as false.”
The joint assertion added: “Russian affect actors additionally manufactured a video falsely accusing a person related to the Democratic presidential ticket of taking a bribe from a U.S. entertainer.
“This Russian exercise is a part of Moscow’s broader effort to lift unfounded questions concerning the integrity of the US election and stoke divisions amongst People, as detailed in prior ODNI election updates. Within the lead as much as election day and within the weeks and months after, the IC expects Russia to create and launch extra media content material that seeks to undermine belief within the integrity of the election and divide People.”
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