Recommendations of the Editorial team
A group that spreads online Pro-Russian propaganda is a reputable news agency to spread misinformation “Politico” Referring to the Organization Newsguard, which tracks down false reports.
The group known as “Storm-1679” creates websites that imitate real news agencies and uses these pages to spread fake news. She has published false reports that look like articles from “ABC News”, the “BBC” and “Politico”.
The group has also used artificial intelligence to spread fake videos that are often associated with important message events. To a certain extent, your efforts are successful. People – including influential rights – fell for it.
In such a video, a fake report by “E! News”, it was claimed in February of this year that the US Agency for International Development (USA) Filmstars had paid to travel to Ukraine after the Russian invasion of 2022. It was posted on social media with the following comment: “The USAI used our tax money to send celebrities to Ukraine to increase the popularity of Selenskyj worldwide and especially in the USA … the USA is burning to earth. We do not need it in any authority.”
Fell on fake news
Donald Trump Jr. and Elon Musk fell into the fraud. Both reposted the video to X. “The video is not authentic and does not come from E! News,” the broadcaster told Reuters at the time.
“As a rule, there is a sudden increase and a wave of counterfeits related to a certain message event,” Ivana Stradner, Russia expert at the Think Tank Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, told “Politico”.
Newsguard pursues 556 domains “spread the wrong claims about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine”. Some of these domains are official Russian state media, but others are not official Russian propaganda channels. These are “anonymous websites, foundations and research websites with unclear financing, at least some of which may not have opened connections to the Russian government”.
The false stories that have spread these domains include that the United States have biowaffe laboratories in Eastern Europe, that National Socialism in the politics and society of Ukraine is spreading and that a massacre was staged to civilians in Butsha, Ukraine.
While the danger of disinformation and AI counterfeits increases, the Trump government is making its efforts to combat them. The Foreign Ministry under Minister Marco Rubio has closed the authority that is fighting against foreign disinformation.
Rubio claimed – without evidence – that the authority had “spent millions of dollars in order to actively silence and censor the voices of the Americans to whom it should actually serve”. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the Ministry of Homeland has also released federal civil servants who had acted against disinformation in connection with the US elections.