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U.S. intelligence officials have confirmed that Moscow was behind a fake San Francisco TV channel that spread outright lies about a supposed hit-and-run incident involving Kamala Harris.
Microsoft had previously identified a “Kremlin-aligned troll farm” as creators of the fictional Bay Area news outlet KBSF-TV, which used a paid actor to create a fake broadcast report about the non-existent incident that racked up millions of views on X and was widely shared on TikTok.
On Monday, FBI officials and representatives of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence told reporters that “Russian influence actors” were indeed “responsible for staging a widely reported video in which a woman claims she was a victim of a hit-and-run car accident by the vice president,” the Herald-Sun reports.
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