US intel says Russian actors made the fake Georgia voter fraud video — and expects more to come

• Russian power actors created a clone Georgia elector fraud video, according to US intel officials.
• The video falsely shows Haitian nationals illegally voting for Kamala Harris successful Georgia.
• US intel group warns much Russian disinformation is coming.

Russian power actors were down nan clone Georgia elector fraud video that's been circulating online, US intelligence officials said.

In a joint connection released connected Friday, nan Office of nan Director of National Intelligence, nan FBI, and nan Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Russia made a mendacious video purporting to show non-US citizens from Haiti illegally voting successful aggregate counties successful Georgia.

In nan video, a man claims that he and an chartless number of different group came to nan US from Haiti six months ago, obtained US citizenship and licenses, and voted for Kamala Harris successful Georgia's Gwinnett County and Fulton County. He holds up what appears to beryllium clone licenses — each pinch nan aforesaid ID image — and invites "all Haitians to travel to America and bring families."

The video dispersed crossed aggregate societal media sites, including X, pinch users calling retired elector fraud successful favour of Harris.

But it's each fake, and nan consequence of Russian interference, nan US intel group says.

"This Russian activity is portion of Moscow's broader effort to raise unfounded questions astir nan integrity of nan US predetermination and stoke divisions among Americans, arsenic elaborate successful anterior ODNI predetermination updates," nan ODNI, FBI, and CISA said successful their associated statement.

The intelligence group said they made their judgement based connected "information available" to them and connected "prior activities of different Russian power actors, including videos and different disinformation activities."

Prior to nan statement, Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger posted connected X connected Thursday calling retired nan video arsenic "obviously fake" and apt "a accumulation of Russian troll farms."

In a statement posted connected X, Raffensperger urges "Elon Musk and nan activity of different societal media platforms to return this down."

More disinformation is apt to harvest up earlier Election Day and beyond, nan US intel group warned.

"In nan lead up to predetermination time and successful nan weeks and months after, nan IC expects Russia to create and merchandise further media contented that seeks to undermine spot successful nan integrity of nan predetermination and disagreement Americans," nan group said successful its statement, referring to itself arsenic nan "intelligence community" aliases "IC."

Russia has a agelong history of moving disinformation campaigns successful nan US.

A NewsGuard audit complete nan summertime recovered that starring AI chatbots were falsely citing Moscow-funded clone news sources arsenic truth much than 30% of nan time. And a 2023 US intelligence appraisal recovered that Russia uses spies, societal media, and state-sanctioned media to denigrate and sow distrust successful antiauthoritarian elections astir nan world, Business Insider antecedently reported.

Meta wrote successful a caller study that Russia is nan apical root of misinformation successful nan world, informing that nan state will attraction connected influencing nan US predetermination and gaining support for its wide criticized warfare successful Ukraine.