Georgia official says fake voter fraud video is likely from Russian troll farm

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said a video purporting to show Haitians claiming that they illegally voted for Kamala Harris is clone and apt nan activity of a Russian troll farm.

In nan video posted to societal media connected Thursday, a man claims that he and others featured successful nan footage are from Haiti, arrived successful nan United States six months ago, obtained U.S. citizenship wrong that time, and are voting for Kamala Harris successful aggregate Georgia counties.

"Yesterday, we voted successful Gwinnett County, and coming we're voting successful Fulton County," nan man says. "We person each our documents, driver's license. We induce each Haitians to travel to America and bring families."

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said this video circulating connected societal media appears to beryllium disinformation from a Russian troll farm.

Raffensperger said his agency was moving pinch authorities and national partners to place nan root of nan video and urged X proprietor Elon Musk and nan "leadership of different societal media platforms" to region nan video.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, aliases CISA, told CBS News it was alert of nan footage and moving pinch national authorities partners to analyse further.

Darren Linvill, an master connected Russian disinformation and co-director of nan Media Forensics Hub astatine Clemson University, told CBS News nan video has striking similarities to erstwhile videos released by a Russian power group known arsenic Storm-1516.

The video was posted to an anonymous X relationship that has antecedently shared Russian disinformation, Linvill said. Storm-1516 has been linked to different fabricated videos, including footage that was falsely said to show predetermination workers ripping up ballots successful Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The group has besides published videos pinch mendacious claims about Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, according to researchers and officials.

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