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Kamala Harris

No surprise i suppose...

Russian election interference efforts targeting Harris campaign, Microsoft finds

The new effort, which involves spreading fake videos discrediting Harris and her campaign, is the latest foreign interference linked to Russia in recent weeks.

By Maggie Miller

09/17/2024 03:10 PM EDT

Russian government-linked efforts to interfere in the upcoming U.S. presidential election have increasingly shifted to target the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, Microsoft reported in findings published Tuesday.

The new effort, which involves spreading fake videos discrediting Harris and her campaign, is the latest foreign interference linked to Russia in recent weeks, and shows a speedy pivot by foreign adversaries to targeting the Harris campaign after she replaced President Joe Biden on the ticket.

Microsoft found evidence that two “Kremlin-aligned” groups have in recent weeks spread videos including those showing Harris supporters attacking supporters of former President Donald Trump, and another video that used an actor to pose as Harris in a fictitious hit-and-run incident. Each of these videos received millions of views, according to Microsoft, and one of the videos was put out through a fake San Francisco news outlet, in an attempt to give the video more credibility.

The groups also posted videos to social media platforms X and Telegram showing a fake New York City billboard with false Harris policies. Microsoft found that this video received more than 100,000 views on X in the first hours after being posted.
 

Bret Stephens, a conservative journalist, makes some obvious and soild points here. She does have work to do, and there's only 6 weeks or so left!

Hopefully not behind a paywall.


He's a conservative journalist!! He would say that. TBH, for any normal person, it is enough "to be not Trump".
Harris was mediocre at best as VP but compared to the shitshow that Trump presidency was and would be again, she's the only choice!
Still think it's up in the air mind you. Whatever national polls are saying can be disregarded - comes down to five or six of the bigger swing states!
 
Bernie Sanders would have had no chance at all of winning. What he did do is make it harder for Hillary to win.
He's far more electable than Hillary.

Doesn't matter now anyway. He's sold out. Happy to be the guy in the chair with the big coat.
 
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