Russia is quietly churning out fake content posing as US news

 

A pro-Russian propaganda group is taking advantage of high-profile news events to spread disinformation, and it’s spoofing reputable organizations — including news outlets, nonprofits and government agencies — to do so.

 

According to misinformation tracker NewsGuard, the campaign — which has been tracked by Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center as Storm-1679 since at least 2022 — takes advantage of high-profile events to pump out fabricated content from various publications, including ABC News, BBC and most recently POLITICO.

 

This year, the group has focused on flooding the internet with fake content surrounding the German SNAP elections and the upcoming Moldovan parliamentary vote. The campaign also sought to plant false narratives around the war in Ukraine ahead of President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday.

 

Read more:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/russia-us-news-media-disinformation-campaign-00512173

No hope of an independent and neutral news organization arising from the mud then.

This is nothing new, China does the same, and it will only increase as AI spreads.

The first AI was fake boobs... Downhill ever since.